Category: NWF Competitions

Mike Flannery and his team head off to Blackpool, no not for the Pleasure Beach but to visit Fylde Croquet Club to play in the NWF 26pt league. the Griffins have lost the previous two matches, so an away win would be most welcomed. The term is Mike Flannery (11), Alison Acton (20), Ros Pimlott (16) and Mike Shelmerdine (5). We wish them well.

Cas Sinclair captains her team in the NWF Short league against Llanfairfechan. Cas’s team is Cas Sinclair (5), John Lambie (4), Brian Medley (2P) and Phil Thompson (7).

Further match details to follow and we wish them well.

Nigel Matthews and his team welcomed Southport to Bowdon to play in the next round of this year’s NWF Level Play Golf Croquet League.

Bowdon’s team is Nigel Matthews (-1), David Cornes (0) and Alan Dix (3). Southport’s team was Paul Greenwood, Eddie Green, David Venables.

The matches were pretty even matched with seven of 18 games going to Golden Hoop. At the end of a tight competitive days Golf Croquet, the match ending in a tie, nine games each, with Bowdon edging Southport on number of hoops run, but it’s still a draw.

Here’s the individual scores:

	SOUTHPORT	Paul	Eddie	David
BOWDON	Wins	4	3	2
Nigel	5	7 – 6 3 – 7	7 – 4 7 – 4	7 – 1 7 – 5
David	1	6 – 7 5 – 7	6 – 7 6 – 7	7 – 5 6 – 7
Alan	3	6 – 7 7 – 4	7 – 6 3 – 7	7 – 4 4 – 7

Bowdon beat Fylde in the NWF B-Class league match 4-1 on Sunday 24th May.
The team was: Adrian Apps (Capt), Alan Dix, & Paul Harris.

The full scores were:
Adrian (4) & Paul (4.5) beat Peter Wilson (3) & Nathan Baker (5) 20 – 13
Alan (4) beat Phil Snowden (5) 26 – 6
In the afternoon, Adrian lost to Peter 24 -26; Alan beat Nathan 26 – 6; Paul beat Phil 25 – 12.

Well done team!

Nigel Matthews has passed the baton over to Brain Storey for this weeks match at Llanfairfechan in NWF Short League. The full team is Brian Storey (3P), John Bagnall (3.5), Mike Blackburn (4) and Carol Steinberg (7). The Llanfairfechan team was: James Thomas (2P), David Harding (3.5), Fred Williams (4) and David Cartlidge (8)

The weather was sunny, warm, with a slight breeze plus the challenge of an undulating lawn surface which was nevertheless perfectly playable. Together with the friendly hospitality in was a nice day except for the result where we lost 12-4.

Results were:

	David C	Fred	David H	James
John	7-9	7-6	3-14	6-14
Brian	10-5	7-11	7-6	11-14
Carol	4-14	4-14	5-14	12-14
Mike	14-11	0-14	7-14	3 – 14

Bowdon hosted Southport in this NWF 14pt league match. The Bowdon team was Captain Charles Fraser (7.5), Alison Acton (11), Robert Cutts-Watson (6) and Paul Harris (2.5). Southports team was: Bill Nicholl (4), Eddie Green (4.5), Brian Lewis (5) and Terry Dunbar(11)

The two doubles matches in the morning were very evenly matched with only one point between the pairs,  and each side winning one  game. 

In the singles, several games were very close but ultimately Bowdon won seven of the eight singles games. Particular mention must go to Bowdon’s Alison Acton who achieved very strong results, totalling 28 points to 6 in her two games.

Match details:

Bowdon	Result	Southport	Score
Paul & Alison	lost to	Bill & Terry	8 – 9
Robert & Charles	beat	Eddie & Brian	9 – 8
Paul	beat	Eddie	12 – 10
Robert	beat	Bill	14 – 11
Charles	beat	Terry	14 – 6
Alison	beat	Brian	14 – 0
Paul	beat	Bill	14 – 12
Robert	lost to	Eddie	8 – 14
Charles	beat	Brian	14 – 11
Alison	beat	Terry	14 – 6
Bowdon	beat	Southport	8 – 2

Bowdon travelled to Fylde to take part in this NWF Short league game. Bowdon’s team was John Lambie (4), Mike Dale (6), Alison Acton (7) and Phil Thompson (7). Fylde’s team was Lee Bartley (3P), Betty Bates (1.5), Barry Broughton (5) and Derek Matthews (8).

The morning session didn’t start too well for Bowdon, winning just 1 of the four games., suitably refreshed after a mid morning cuppa, Bowdon bounced back and won 3 of the 4 games. 4 all at lunch.

After lunch Bowdon slipped into old ways and went 7 – 5 down. But as before, another cuppa and maybe a piece of cake, stimulated the team and they won 3 of the next set of games to tie the match at 8 all. Well done.

Club members Alan Dix and Chris Williamson entered the B-Level Golf Croquet tournament at Pendle. Alan was in Block A and won all his matches to progress to the knockout event. Chris won two of his games in Block D, also progressing to knockout event.

The two met each other in the Semi Final, which Alan won 7 – 5. Alan faced Eddie Wilson (Southport) in the Final whom he beat 7 – 4.

Well done to Chris and especially to Alan who’s on a purple patch at the moment.

Ian Longstaff vs Eddie Wilson	3 – 7
Dave Hunt-Jackson vs Clare Rockall	7 – 4	Eddie Wilson vs Dave Hunt-Jackson	7 – 3	Eddie Wilson vs Alan Dix	4 – 7
Robert Mumford vs Chris Williamson	3 – 7	Chris Williamson vs Alan Dix	5 -7
Richard Sanville vs Alan Dix	1 -7

Bowdon travelled to Pendle to play in the NWF Level Play GC match. Bowdon were captained by Nigel Matthews, ably assisted by David Cornes and Alan Dix.

Pendle’s team were Paul Dowdall, Mike Bradbury and Libby Dixon.

The Bowdon team were on a hot streak winning all the days games and ended up 16 to 0 Winners. A fabulous result. Well done team.

Individual match scores were as follows:

Pendle	Scores	Bowdon
Paul Dowdall	3 – 7, 3 – 7	Alan Dix
Mike Bradbury	3 – 7, 3 – 7	David Cornes
Libby Dixon	6 – 7, 2 – 7	Nigel Matthews
Paul Dowdall	4 – 7	David Cornes
Mike Bradbury	6 – 7, 1 – 7	Nigel Matthews
Libby Dixon	5 – 7	Alan Dix
Paul Dowdall	2 – 7, 1 – 7	Nigel Matthews
Mike Bradbury	4 – 7, 1 – 7	Alan Dix
Libby Dixon	2 – 7, 3 – 7	David Cornes
0	Games	16
49	Hoops	112

Bowdon took on Southport in this match in the NWF 26 pt league. Sadly Southport could only field 3 players so Mike Flannery’s team was Adrian Apps and Phil Thompson.

The Southport team were: David Venables (7), Eddie Green (8) and Peter Williams (9).

The morning games were shared between the clubs. Both teams needed to win two of the three afternoon matches, Southport proved just a bit better than Bowdon and ran out winners by three matches to two. The individual match scores were as follows:

Bowdon	Result	Southport	Score
Adrian & Phil	beat	David & Eddie	22 – 9
Mike	lost to	Peter	14 – 15
Adrian	beat	David	26 – 12
Mike	lost to	Eddie	15 – 23
Phil	lost to	Peter	14 – 21