Category: Internal Competitions

On a lovely day in late December 18 members turned up to play this week’s One Ball. There should have been 19, Gerald FitzGerald was due to play and celebrate his 70th Birthday with other members, but Gerald was feeling under the weather and wasn’t able to make it. Gerald, get better soon.

This week saw a very close contest at the top between Mike Dale and Phil Thompson, Mike coming out on top with 96 and Phil second on 95. Sheila Dix was also a very close third on 92 points.

No change at the top of the leaderboard, Andy still out in front. Watch out for David Beddy though, he’s only played 7 times, so if David gets a good score next time he plays he may well be challenging Andy for top spot.

Position	Name	Total Points	Movement	Wins	Score to Beat
1	Andy Wilson-Chalon	600	=	1	52
2	Sheila Dix	575	=	1	53
3	David Beddy	569	+3	2	0
4	Cas Sinclair	551	-1		59
5	Gerald Fitzgerald	513	-1		51
6	Margaret Moss	508	-1		53
7	Alan Mayne	447	=	1	0
8	David Holland	439	+1		0

You can view the full table here.

Fourteen members called into the club to challenge for this weeks One Ball. Andy Wilson-Chalon came out on top, with his first win of the season. Andy’s score was 94, followed by Phil Thompson on 86 in second place. Third place was shared between Sheila Dix and Louise Cheyne on 83.

Andy’s score today keeps him on top of the overall table, Sheila’s third place today moves her up to second place. Here’s the top 8.

The top 5 members have all now played at least 8 matches, as such the “Score to Beat” column shows the lowest score of their top 8 counting scores. In order to improve their overall score members will have to beat that score.

Position	Name	Total Points	Move	Wins	Score to Beat
1	Andy Wilson-Chalon	600	=	1	52
2	Sheila Dix	535	+2	1	52
3	Cas Sinclair	523	+3		31
4	Gerald Fitzgerald	513	-2		51
5	Margaret Moss	508	-2		53
6	David Beddy	488	+1	2	0
7	Alan Mayne	447	-2	1	0
8	Alison Acton	379	=		0

You can view the full table here.

Fifteen members braved the variable weather to take part in this weeks Winter One Ball Competition. First time attendee for this season; Ros Pimlott, took first place with a score of 92. Second was “most improved” male player, Nigel Matthews with a score of 90, and joint third were Dave Beddy and John Bagnall with 84 points.

Andy retains his first position, but has now completed 8 weeks ,as such he’ll have to improve on his lowest counting score to increase his total points. As such, this gives a chance for those behind to catch up. Gerald keeps hold of second place and Alison moves into 8th place, nudging Dave Holland out of the top table.

Position	Member	Points	Movement	Wins
1	Andy Wilson-Chalon	553	=
2	Gerald Fitzgerald	457	=
3	Margaret Moss	454	-1
4	Sheila Dix	452	+1	1
5	Alan Mayne	447	-1	1
6	Cas Sinclair	442	=
7	David Beddy	413	=	2
8	Alison Acton	379	+2

You can view the full table here. Please note that the chart now has an additional column which shows when you have played 8 weeks, the worst counting score, ie the one you have to better to improve your score next time out.

Like the Saxby on Thursday, this week’s One Ball competition was just for fun, and Phil Thompson came out on top. No doubt still on a high from him winning the Fotiadi Bowl the day before. If you’ve not read about that competition you can follow this link.

The winner of the overall One Ball competition was Sheila Dix, talk about keeping it in the family with Alan winning the Saxby this week too. Well done to the pair of you.

Here’s the top five of the table:

Position	Member	Score	Wins
1	Sheila Dix	842	1
2	Alan Dix	810	4
3	Janet Guthrie	758	1
4	Gerald Fitzgerald	757	1
5	David Holland	734	2

The full table can be found here

Some Facts and Figures:

Overall Winner	842 Points – Sheila Dix
Second Place	810 Points – Alan Dix
Third Place	758 Points – Janet Guthrie
Most Weekly Wins	4 – Alan Dix
Most Weeks Played – (24 Weeks in total)	19 – David Holland
Highest Weekly Winning Score	104 – Alan Mayne (Week 9)
Lowest Weekly Winning Score	82 – David Holland (Week 5)
Wooden Spoon	10 – Peter Mayne (Week 3)
Total Games Played	674
Total Members taking part	47 – club members playing at least once.
Most Members per week	23 – (Week 6)

It’s that time of year again when those members that are eligible to do so enter the Fotiadi Bowl. This competition is for ‘novices’ who are relatively new members to the club.

1979 Ian Drury (Not he of Blockheads fame!)	1980 Colin Irwin	1981 Brian Storey
1996 Andrew Winn	2003 Steve Reynolds	2007 Barry McKenzie
2010 Brian Rust	2011 Andrew Kenyon	2015 Richard Saul
2016 John Lambie	2023  David Beddy	2024  Paul Harris

The Fotiadi Bowl is named after Mrs Fotiadi, who was a leading member of Bowdon Croquet Club for most of the twentieth century. It doesn’t get played every year but there have been some notable winners in previous years:

As you can see it’s a male dominated list, however, this year may well be different; as well as Phil Thompson and Gerald Fitzgerald taking part, we also have Heather Cunningham and Alison Acton in the mix, strong contenders each of them.

This tournament was resurrected two years ago and it has been wonderful to see some of our newest members enthusiastically competing for the trophy each year. There were some close games as the players demonstrated their impressive new skills in Association Croquet. And, in an all-play-all format, Philip Thompson won all his games to lift the trophy.

Full scores were:

Philip Thompson	beat	Heather Cunningham	14 – 5
Alison Acton	beat	Gerald Fitzgerald	9 – 7
Philip Thompson	beat	Gerald Fitzgerald	14 – 9
Heather Cunningham	beat	Alison Acton	9 – 5
Philip Thompson	beat	Alison Acton	11 – 8
Heather Cunning ham	beat	Gerald Fitzgerald	14 – 9

Well done Phil, but watch out for the Handicap committee who will be sharpening their pencils and looking out for you!

Seventeen members turned up for this weeks One Ball Competition. A good time was had by all. Adrian Apps was this weeks winner, his first of the season, with a score of 90. Second was Alan Dix with 82 points and Fred Owen was third with 80 points.

Members also enjoyed a lovely tea provided by Kay Martin and Anne Mayne. Many thanks.

Not much change in the top five of the table, Janet and Gerald have swopped places. Things might start to warm up as far as the table goes, quite a few of the players have now played more than 10 games. As such they have to better their ‘worse’ score to increase their overall score. As far as top 5 go the additional right hand column below shows what score they have to BEAT next time to improve their overall score.

Position	Member	Score	Movement	Wins	‘Worse’ Score
1	Sheila Dix	813	=	1	69
2	Janet Guthrie	739	+1	1	56
3	Gerald Fitzgerald	734	-1	1	64
4	David Holland	727	=	2	59
5	Tim McCoy	720	=		62

The full table can be accessed here.

Fourteen members turned up on a surprisingly warm, dry day to take part in this week’s One Ball. No tea today so members were able to concentrate on their play and a good time was had by all.

As in week 8 we had joint winners today, Janet Guthrie and David Holland with a score of 94. Adrian Apps was third with 72.

As far as top five of the table goes, Sheila Dix and Gerald Fitzgerald are still 1st and 2nd, but Janet and Dave winning today moves each of them up a place to 3rd and 4th and Tim McCoy into 5th.

Position	Member	Points	Movement	Wins
1	Sheila Dix	808	=	1
2	Gerald Fitzgerald	734	=	1
3	Janet Guthrie	715	+1	1
4	David Holland	709	+1	2
5	Tim McCoy	700	+1	0

The full table can be accessed here.

Eighteen members turned up on a sunny day to play the one ball competition and to enjoy this weeks tea and by all accounts Sheila Dix put on a magnificent spread. Which got snaffled really quickly and was quite delicious. But back to the croquet, Margaret Moss won with a score of 95, Louise Cheyne was second and Sheila was third with scores of 91 and 84 respectively.

Sheila retains top spot in the overall table and the rest of the top five looks like this:

Position	Member	Score	Movement	Wins
1	Sheila Dix	808	=	1
2	Gerald Fitzgerald	725	=	1
3	Cas Sinclair	676	=
4	Janet Guthrie	672	+3
5	David Holland	666	-1	1

The full table can be accessed here.

Fifteen members turned up for this weeks competition. Sheila Dix, current leader pulled out all the stops and strolled to her first victory of the season, with a creditable score of 99. Second was Jan Laws with 78 and joint third were Andrew Jenkins and Monica Young with a score of 75.

No movement at the top of the table, Sheila’s first followed by Gerald and Cas. Janet moves up three places into fourth place. The top five is as follows:

Position	Member	Score	Movement	Wins
1	Sheila Dix	786	=	1
2	Gerald Fitzgerald	715	=	1
3	Cas Sinclair	669	=
4	Janet Guthrie	639	+3
5	David Holland	633	-1	1

The full table can be accessed here.