Author: Mike Flannery

Bowdon host Roehampton in the quarter final of the AC Inter-Club competition. The team is:

Roehampton’s team is: David Openshaw, Joel Taylor, Mark van Loon and Christian Carter.

We wish the team well. You can follow the scores on Croquet Scores by clicking here

Sixteen members turned up this week to try and win a Mars Bar. This week’s winner was John Bagnall with a season highest score of 89. Well done John. Second and third were Garth Aspinall and Louise Cheyne with scores of 71 and 69.

Cas Sinclair moves into top spot in the table and after today’s win, John moves up 9 places into 5th place.

Position	Name	Points	Movement	Wins
1	Cas Sinclair	220	+2
2	Nigel Matthews	203	-1
3=	Lorna Frost	193	+3
3=	Mike Steer	193	+4
5	John Bagnall	186	+9	1

The rest of the table is here.

Sixteen members turned up on what might be the best of the weather for the next few weeks. Last years front runner, Andy Jackson came first with a score of 88. Which is the highest score of the season so far. Alan Dix and Nigel Matthews came second and third with scores of 86 and 73 respectively.

Nigel Matthews retains first place in the overall table and the top five looks like this.

Pos	Name	Total Score	Movement	Wins
1	Nigel Matthews	203	=	0
2	Andy Jackson	166	+10	1
3	Cas Sinclair	155	+1	0
4	Alan Dix	149	+12	0
5	Barry McKenzie	136	+3	0

The overall leader board will be published after next weeks competition.

Those of you that have your 2025 Members Handbooks will have seen on the front cover Jack Good with all, well nearly all, of his trophies from last year. Jack’s now trying his best to get even more!

18th April Update.
Jack made it through to the semi final, where he played New Zealander, Levi Franks, unfortunately Jack lost 3-1 and Levi went on to play Egypt’s Fawzy Helmy in the final, whom Levi beat 3-0 to become U21 World Golf Croquet Champion. Well done Levi and commiserations to Jack on coming so close. Better luck next time.

Jack is currently in Sarasota, Florida competing in the GC World Championships for under 21’s

The tournament has been running for a few days now and currently Jack has so far won four of his matches in his Block (A). You can follow his progress on Croquet Scores website, click here. There are some videos on You Tube, but I’ve not found a live feed yet, I’ll keep looking. Here’s a link to one of them, click here.

Bowdon hosted Pendle in the NWF 26pt Handicap league. Bowdon ran out winners 5-2. Special mention for Charles and Ros; Charles won both his games and Ros won the doubles with Dave and also her singles match. A good start to the season.

Well done team

The Bowdon team was:

The Pendle team was: Paul Dowdall (7), Andrew Gould (9), Mark Kerr (12) and Libby Dixon (12)

Game scores were as follows:

Bowdon		Pendle	Score
Dave H and Ros	beat	Paul and Libby	26-1
Charles	beat	Andrew	16-14
David B	lost to	Mark	12-21
Dave H	lost to	Paul	5-26
David B	beat	Andrew	26-3
Charles	beat	Mark	22-18
Ros	beat	Libby	14-11

A beautiful spring day at Bowdon, saw the Bowdon “Weekdayers” (sporting a new name for this years competition), with a great start to the season by beating Chester 12 – 4 in the North West Fed Short handicap league.

Well done team.

The Team was as follows:

Alan Mayne is the teams non playing Captain.

The Chester team was; David Boyd 0, Robin Tasker 1, Nigel Worthington 3 and Ant Fletcher 10.

The individual scores were as follows, Bowdon scores are shown first and the teams winning matches are in bold.

Player	David	Robin	Nigel	Ant
Nigel	10-9	9-8	10-9	12-7
Charles	8-10	12-9	11-8	11-8
Ken	14-4	10-6	14-1	14-4
Garth	6-7	14-4	5-8	7-13

Twenty members turned up on a lovely sunny day to play this weeks round of the competition.

Liz Webb ran out this week’s winner with a creditable 86 points. Andy Jackson and Nigel Matthews with 78 and 73 points were second and third. Nigel moves into first position of the table.

The full table will be published after a few weeks of play. The top five after week two is as follows:

Pos	Name	Score	Movement	Wins
1	Nigel Matthews	130	+8	0
2	Adrian Apps	122	+2	0
3	Carol Steinberg	114	-1	0
4	Cas Sinclair	110	+2	0
5	Liz Webb	108	+11	1

The Committee are pleased to announce that this year’s club handbook is now available and can be collected from the club. Far Country and Country and a few other members will receive theirs by post. You will have received an email to advise you if yours is being posted.

If you spot any errors please will you let me know. Any other feedback would be gratefully received.

This year’s front cover celebrates Jack Good’s achievements during 2024.

Not sure there’s much more silverware that Jack could have won!

Well done Jack.

Mike Flannery
Membership Secretary

By popular demand the next Quiz Night will be on Friday 28th March.

7pm for 7.30 pm start.

Teams of 2 or 3

As before donations for raffle prizes will be most welcome.