Some new players at a close GC tournament

The weather forecast was for it to be cold – it was cold. The weather forecast was for there to be showers in the afternoon and there were a couple of light ones! However this didn’t put off any of our players who enjoyed a full day of croquet.

The block games produced a very tight set of results, and while Gabriel Furse won all his games to top the red block (with Ian Prince in second), in the blue block, three players had tied on wins with two each. On net hoops Richard Coward secured the block win, with second (Chris Barnard) and third (James Gamon ) separated by just one hoop!

The semifinals were very close, nip and tuck games all the way round. Chris made the final, with his opponent decided at a tense 13th hoop where Ian prevailed. The final round of games were composed of players who had not previously played each other, and these games repeated the close results which were a feature of the whole day. In the final, Ian and Chris shared hoops all the way to hoop 12 with Ian then taking an opportunity to run the hoop and take the win 7-5. Congratulations to him.

Kenny Weir