Category: John Saxby Competition

Nineteen members turned out on a sunny day in May. A mars bar awaiting the winner. This weeks winner with a score of 68 was Cas Sinclair. Cas was the leader of the comp before this week and has increased her lead over second place Lorna Frost. Adrian Apps (66) and Lorna Frost (64) were second and third today. Adrian moves up 6 places in the overall table to 6th place.

The top five of the table looks like this:

Position	Name	Score	Movement	Wins
1	Cas Sinclair	329	=	1
2	Lorna Frost	295	=
3	John Bagnall	262	=	1
4	Graham Abraham	252	+2
5	Mike Steer	250	+2

You can view the full table can be found here.

Thirteen members turned up on a hot sunny Thursday to compete for a Mars Bar. Andrew Winn came first with a score of 79, his second win of this year’s competition. Graham Abraham and Ken Cooper came second and third, with scores of 59 and 58.

Cas Sinclair retains first place in the overall table and here’s the top five.

Position	Name	Points	Movement	Wins
1	Cas Sinclair	261	=
2	Lorna Frost	231	+1
3	John Bagnall	218	+2	1
4	Andrew Winn	216	+10	2
5	Nigel Matthews	203	-3

The full table can be found here

Hopefully members will have been watching the progress of this years John Saxby competition. A days effort with a slice of Mars Bar as the prize, what’s not to like.

You will have noticed that this year Andy Jackson was in lead position for most of the season, only to be pipped on the last day of competition by Cas Sinclair.

Well done to Cas, pop along to the AGM on Saturday 2nd November to see Cas get her trophy, along with all the winners of this years internal competitions.

In the meantime, here’s some facts and figures about this years competition.

Nos of Weeks played	23
Nos of Members played	43
Nos of Games played	972
Overall Winner	619	pts	Cas Sinclair
Second Place	606	pts	Andy Jackson
Third Place	585	pts	Robert Cutts-Watson
Highest Winning Score	96	pts	Mike Steer (Week 13)
Lowest Winning Score	70	pts	Louise Cheyne (Week 8)
Highest Score not to win	89	pts	Liz Webb (Week 3)
Most Weeks Played	19		Cas Sinclair
Highest Average Score	69	pts	Liz Webb (> 5 games played)
Most Wins	3		Cas Sinclair, Andy Jackson, Mike Steer
Mosts Weeks in First Place	19		Andy Jackson

On a beautiful day for playing croquet, 16 members turned up to play the final scoring round of this years competition. Andy Jackson had been virtually top of the table all season, could he be toppled at the last minute? Well, unfortunately for Andy he could! Cas Sinclair who has been second pretty much for the whole competition pipped Andy to the post with a score of 89. Cas’s 3rd win of the year. Second was Robert Cutts-Watson with 80 points and third Sylvia Steer with 71. Well done Cas and commiserations to Andy.

The top five of the table now looks like this:

Position	Member	Score	Movement	Wins
1	Cas Sinclair	619	+1	3
2	Andy Jackson	606	-1	3
3	Robert Cutts-Watson	585	=	2
4	Liz Webb	554	+2	2
5	Kay Martin	524	=

The final table can be found here

Twelve members turned up this week. Robert Cutts-Watson came out on top for the second time this year, with score of 93. That score was the second highest of the season, after Mike Steer’s 96 in week 13. Robert’s no doubt catching the eyes of the handicap committee!! Well done Robert. Kay Martin was second (87) and Cas Sinclair (86).

NB Please note that whilst the final week of the competition for this season will be Thursday 26th September, the final week for submitting a score will be Thursday 19th September.

As you can probably guess, Andy Jackson is still in pole position and with only two more weeks of scoring is looking pretty safe to win the overall competition. The top five of the overall league looks like this:

Pos	Name	Score	Movement	Wins
1	Andy Jackson	625	=	3
2	Cas Sinclair	572	=	2
3	Robert Cutts-Watson	554	+1	2
4	Mike Steer	524	+1	3
5	Kay Martin	523	+2

The full table can be found here

Ten members turned out to play this weeks competition. Cas Sinclair won for the second time this year, with score of 85 points, Carol Steinberg was second with 63 and John Lucas, third on 55 points.

Andy Jackson is still in pole position in the overall league. Cas’s win today, narrows the gap between her and Andy to just 34 points. Liz Webb is third, 88 points behind Andy, but with only 7 scores,. As such a good win from Liz in the last few weeks of the competition, can put the cat amongst the pigeons!

NB Please note that whilst the final week of the competition for this season will be Thursday 26th September, the final week for submitting a score will be Thursday 19th September.

Pos	Name	Score	Movement	Wins
1	Andy Jackson	606	=	3
2	Cas Sinclair	572	=	2
3	Liz Webb	518	=	2
4	Robert Cutts-Watson	507	=
5	Mike Steer	503	=	3

The full table can be found here

Not a usual week this week, the competition was moved to Wednesday, to allow for the lawns to be prepared from this weekends Northern Championships. Ten members turned up but due to various reasons the numbers dwindled during the day. As such with only 4 members managing to complete their three games it was decided not to award a Mars bar for this week. Of the four, Lorna Frost scored highest with 69.

There hasn’t been much change to the leader board, with Andy still out in the lead. The top five looks like this:

Pos	Name	Points	Movement	Wins
1	Andy Jackson	606	=	3
2	Cas Sinclair	548	=	1
3	Liz Webb	518	=	2
4	Robert Cutts-Watson	507	=
5	Mike Steer	502	=	3

The full table can be found here

Twelve members braved the August weather to play this weeks John Saxby. This week Robert Cutts-Watson came first, with a creditable score of 85. Cas Sinclair and Andy Jackson came second and third with scores of 78 and 71.

Andy Jackson remains in first place. Liz Webb has jumped back into the top five, and has only seven scores against her name, so another high scoring visit could put Andy under some pressure for the top spot! Robert’s win today moves him up a couple of places into the top five.

Position	Name	Score	Movement	Wins
1	Andy Jackson	606	=	3
2	Cas Sinclair	548	=	1
3	Liz Webb	518	+5	2
4	Robert Cutts-Watson	507	+2	1
5	Mike Steer	502	-2	3

Please note that nexts weeks completion will be on Wednesday 21st August, not Thursday.

The full table can be found here

With no play last week, twelve members braved the hot weather to take part in week 17 of the competition. Ken Cooper was this weeks winner, his first win of the season, scoring 86 points. Second was Kay Martin with 70 points. Louise Cheyne and Charles Fraser shared third spot with a score of 63.

Andy Jackson remains out front, and Mike Blackburn, despite having his handicap chopped the other week, is creeping up the table and is now in 5th position. The remainder of the top five looks like this:

Pos	Name	Points	Movement	Wins
1	Andy Jackson	598	=	3
2	Cas Sinclair	529	=	1
3	Mike Steer	502	=	3
4	Kay Martin	482	+1
5	Mike Blackburn	478	+2

The full table can be found here