Apart from club sessions, courts may be booked in advance, click
. Please note that these bookings are on a separate website. They can be viewed without a login,
but require a separate login in order to make or edit a booking.
If you don't have a username and password for this please ask Simon Hathrell.
GC Open Series Tournament
part of the National GC Open Tournament Series
Golf Croquet
The Tournament is an open two-day Golf Croquet Level Play Singles competition
for unrestricted handicaps, staged at Watford as part of CqE's national Open
Series tournaments in the
Croquet England fixtures calendar.
Open GC Tournament
results by year:
Title:
Golf Croquet Open Series Tournament
Handicaps:
: any
Date:
Saturday 31 August - Sunday 1 September
Capacity:
16
Manager:
Simon Hathrell
Secretary:
Simon Hathrell :
Simon Hathrellclick on link to send an email : 01923 241582
Address: please ask, or log in and obtain it from the
CqE member's directory
Entries:
Allocation: 1 July; Closing: 26 August Those who wish to enter and pay online may do so
through the CqE website in same way as entering a CqE Tournament.
Alternatively, postal entries should be submitted together with entry fee using the standard
CqE Tournament entry form.
Entry fee:
£24 (CqE Premium members), others £36. Pay online
(see above) or by cheque to the secretary, payable to "Watford
(Cassiobury) Croquet Club".
Format:
AMD, provisionally the standard Series format if full capacity.
Players must be prepared to play up to 8 games per day.
This tournament forms part of the National GC Open Series.
Tea, soft drinks and biscuits are provided free of charge, and a cold lunch will be available for a small fee.
Details of parking and other arrangements will be sent to participants before the event.
The tournament had a rather precarious existence with no less than 10 withdrawals for various reasons,
including one at 11:30pm on the evening before the event. Rather disappointing, especially since the courts were
playing at their best following the recent completion of a new automatic irrigation system and an improved
maintenance regime. And the weather was warm and pleasant as well.
The final tournament entry was therefore made up to 8 for the first day with the addition of manager Simon Hathrell
and Watford member Eddie Chung, which provided an all-play-all block of single 13-point games for a full day's play.
Then at the end of the first day a discussion amongst the players led to the conclusion that the second day should
comprise just the top 4 players from the first day in another all-play-all block of best-of-3 13-point games, as the
other players preferred not to return for a second day given the limited size of entry.
The first day saw Nick Archer emerge as the undefeated day 1 winner on 7/7, followed by Ross Bagni on 5/7, then Eddie
Chung and Geoff Johnson on 4/7. However, since Eddie Chung was unavailable for the second day his place was taken by
George Skinner, another Watford member, as stand-in.
The second day was therefore contested by Nick Archer, Ross Bagni, Geoff Johnson and George Skinner. Nick once again
proved invincible with his - mostly - deadly accuracy, though he was taken to a close finish at the 13th hoop by Ross in
one game. Geoff repeated his 2-1 win over Ross in the final of the A-level Series tournament at Watford earlier in the
summer, and George also proved himself a worthy stand-in by beating Geoff 2-1, so that Ross, Geoff and George all shared
one rubber win apiece.
Open AC Midweek Advanced
National GC C-Level (7+) Series Final
:
: 01923 241582