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We are please to announce that David Cornes will be running a GC Rules and Common faults session on these dates.

Please be aware the session is not a referees course (aimed at attendees progressing to Referee status) but rather to increase members awareness and knowledge of the most common aspects of the GC game.  

The session will mainly be held in the Clubhouse, with a desktop croquet set. Some clarification or content may be done outside so we have booked lawn one outside the Clubhouse

To get an idea of interest we have set up a registration for this event on the Lawn Booking system. Please add your name to either session. Here’s a link to the dates:

10th April – Registration

26th April – Registration

The first outing for members in the ever popular Saturday ‘Summer’ One Ball. Nineteen members turned up, but there was only one winner; guess who? yep Alan Dix back to winning ways, with a score of 98. Well done Alan. Joint second on 83 points were Graham Abraham, Charles Harding and Phil Thompson. Cruelly in joint 5th place were Alison Acton and Garth Aspinall each with 82, who knew that those blobbed hoops lost them second place!

The top five looks like this:

Position	Member	Score	Movement	Wins
1	Alan Dix	98	=	1
2=	Charles Harding	83	-1
2=	Graham Abraham	83	-1
2=	Phil Thompson	83	-1
5=	Alison Acton	82	-4
5=	Garth Aspinall	82	-4

You can see the full table here

Congratulations to the following winners:

Winter 18pt Advanced – Nigel Matthews

Winter 14pt HC – Carol Steinberg

Winter Doubles – David Beddy & Charles Fraser

Four Bowdon members have been selected to represent their country in the forthcoming coming Home Internationals. These are being played in Carrickmines, Dublin in June.

David Maugham, Andrew Winn and Euan Burridge have been selected to play for England. Whilst this will be David’s 32nd year representing England, it’s Andrew’s first.

Angharrad Walters has been picked to play for Wales.

Well done to all of you and good luck in the competition.

You can read a bit more about the selection and competition on the CqE website by clicking this link.

The final week of the Winter One ball season was played out this weekend. Someone would have to do something quite special to beat current leader David Beddy but despite best efforts from 17 members, David’s lead proved unassailable. Well Done David.

This week Charles Harding took his first (and last) win of the season with a score of 88, second was Tim McCoy on 82 points and joint third were Sandra Cornes and Cas Sinclair on 78.

So we already know who was first in the overall league, again congratulations to David. Mike Dale was second and Andy Wilson-Chalon was third.

You can view the full table here.

Some fun facts for you:

Most Wins	3	David Beddy/Mike Dale
Highest Winning Score	104	David Cornes/Alan Mayne
Highest Average Score	82	Mike Dale
Lowest Winning Score	83	Sheila Dix
Most weeks play	17	Andy Wilson-Chalon
Members playing	50	Played at least 1 game
Number of Games played	1260

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.