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Nineteen players arrived at the club raring to go in the final stages of the Winter One Ball competition. David Beddy, current leader of the overall league, was victorious this week, again! It was David’s third win of the season. Davids score was 90, well done David. Second with 82 points was Cas Sinclair and following closely behind was Graham Abraham with 81 points.

The top eight of the table looks remarkably like last week’s, with no movement in the top 5 places. Although Sandra’s score of 68, jumps her up 5 places into the top 8. Just outside the top 8 was the weekends biggest mover; Gordon Hennell, up 7 places into joint 9th place.

Position	Member	Score	Movement	Wins	Score to Beat
1	David Beddy	702	=	3	81
2	Mike Dale	679	=	3	70
3	Andy Wilson-Chalon	664	=	2	70
4	Sheila Dix	643	=	1	69
5	Tim McCoy	602	=	1	56
6	Sandra Cornes	600	+5	2	49
7	Cas Sinclair	574	+1		60
8	Adrian Apps	573	-2	1	55

You can view the full table here.

You may recall Bowdon was asked last year by Croquet England if we would like to host this prestigious international match between England and Spain. Since then the club has been preparing for the event.

The match takes place on Friday 19th June and finishes on Sunday 21st June. The match comprises of a series of doubles and singles matches, typically in previous events the double takes place Friday and Saturday and the singles start on Saturday and finish on Sunday.

The England team has just been selected and is captained by ex Bowdon member J-P Moberley. The rest of the team is: Euan Burridge, Callum Johnson, Stephen Mulliner, Tobi Savage and Aston Wade. With Sam Cuthbert and Stuart M Smith as first and second reserve.

There will quite a few jobs that need doing over the course of the next few months to make sure the event is a success, if you would like to volunteer your services please contact Gaynor Edwards. Email: bowdoncroquettreasurer@gmail.com

Many thanks

Sixteen members took part in this weekends One Ball competition. Only a few weeks left to go in the Competition. This weeks winner was Robert Cutts-Watson with a score of 92, second place went to Tim McCoy with 85 points and Mike Dale was third with 83.

David Beddy, although he didn’t play this week remains out in the lead of the overall table. Tim’s second place sees him jump up 5 places, with Mike moving up into second place. The rest of the top 8 looks like this:

Position	Member	Score	Movement	Wins	Score to beat
1	David Beddy	692	=	2	80
2	Mike Dale	670	+2	3	69
3	Andy Wilson-Chalon	664	-1	2	70
4	Sheila Dix	625	-1	1	63
5	Tim McCoy	576	+5	1	54
6	Adrian Apps	570	-1	1	54
7	Phil Thompson	558	-1	0	0
8	Cas Sinclair	551	-1	0	59

You can view the full table here.

Do you like Driving and also Beetles? Then pop along to the latest instalment of the clubs infamous Beetle Drive.

Doors open at 7:00 pm for a 7:30pm start.

March 2026

The lawns are set out with 3 FULL lawns and 2 SHORT lawns

Programme of regular roll-up sessions – please sign up on booking system

Monday.   10am-1.15pm  AC for beginners and high handicappers (2 short, 1 full lawn)

Tuesday.   10am-4.45pm  Solomon Grundy AC for lower handicappers (3 full lawns)

Wednesday.   Free

Thursday.  10am-3pm John Saxby AC for all levels (2 short, 3 full lawns)

Friday.         10am-1.15pm Freshers Friday AC for beginners (2 short lawns)

                        3.00pm-6.30pm GC for all levels (2 full lawns)

Saturday.    1.30pm-4.45pm One-Ball for all levels (2 short, 3 full lawns)

Sunday.       Free

The League matches and Tournaments as on the club calendar (see website) take priority over regular sessions

Free play

There will be plenty of availability for individual games and practice on all days. The only roll-ups using all lawns are the Thursday John Saxby 10-3pm, and the Saturday One-ball 1.30-4.30pm

Double banking is encouraged, but not mixing AC and GC on the same lawn. If you see that two AC games are using two separate lawns and you wish to play GC, it is correct to ask(in advance) one AC pair to move to double bank, so freeing up a lawn for your GC game. And vice versa.

There should be sufficient lawn availability for Summer competitions and Box games. If difficult to find a lawn outside of the roll-ups, it is acceptable to join and play your game as part of a roll-up as long as format and time limit is compatible.

The lawns will be reconfigured for the summer on the 19th & 20th March and will therefore be closed on those dates.

Summer Lawns will open on Saturday 21st March using summer start times from 10:00 am.

The “Lawns” section on the booking system is blocked out from the 21st March onwards.

Summer Lawns will be bookable under a new section “Summer Lawns” this is accessed from the drop down menu under the date in the same way as navigating to “competitions”. 

This is available now, feel free to browse the activities planned over the summer. This will also allow you to book ahead (3 week period) from the 1st March.

The default section (the section you see when you open the booking system) will be changed to “Summer Lawns” after the lawn reconfiguration. 

At the last AGM the Committee were asked to consider providing catering for the main tournaments – a simple lunch and some cake for tea. We would need volunteers to help with:

• Food preparation 
• Serving and clearing away 
• Loading and unloading dishwashers etc.

It would be good to get a team of people to share the load – and there is always a free lunch and cake!

You don’t have to stay for the whole day, it needs 2 or 3 people for lunch and 1 (or2) people to put cakes out for tea.

Lorna will put lists up in the clubhouse for you to sign if you are able to help.

Thank you.

Fifteen members braved the rainy weather to take part in this weeks One Ball. Andy Wilson-Chalon came out on top for his second win of the season. Andy scored 96 and Pauline Hennell was second with 90 points and Sheila Dix was third on 73.

The top eight of the table remains the same, except Adrian swopped places with Phil, wo didn’t play this week.

Position	Member	Score	Movement	Wins	Score to beat
1	David Beddy	692	=	2	80
2	Andy Wilson-Chalon	653	=	2	68
3	Sheila Dix	621	=	1	59
4	Mike Dale	587	=	3	0
5	Adrian Apps	562	+1	1	50
6	Phil Thompson	558	-1		0
7	Cas Sinclair	551	=		59
8	Gerald Fitzgerald	548	=		56

You can view the full table here.

By popular demand the clubs infamous Fish and Chip supper is returning, on Friday 27th March. As well as putting the date in your diary don’t forget to add your name to the registration sheet that’s on the club notice board. Enjoy!