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Golf Croquet C-level National Series Tournament, 24 April 2024
Phyllis Court Croquet Chairman Patricia Mulcahy with winner Pete Falle
(Photo by Chris Roberts)
24 April 2024 - Debutant Falle wins our C-Level (7+) Series
Pete Falle was a revelation at C-level today, despite only answering a call-up from the reserves bench with only an hour's notice.
He won this, his first ever tournament, starting only his third eve competitive game, and he did it with clever play including both tactical awareness and technical mallet skills that belied his short time in the sport.
He lost his first block game to our own Carol Huntington 5-7 and then beat another club mate Rob Eagle 7-5 and Llandaff's Trevor Charlton 7-6, to qualify for the main knock-out alongside block winner Eagle.
Liz Smith was both surprised and delighted to win her block to complete a trio of Phyllis Court players to make the cut to the main knock-out, but unfortunately for us, she and Falle met in the quarter-final.
Falle got the better of a very close match with Smith 7-6, and then beat fellow tournament debutant Gareth Hobby of Caversham 7-5.
Falle's opponent in the final was the undefeated Chris Dochniak from East Dorset, who had looked the class act of the field from her first game, and she started well winning the first tow hoops.
However, the unflustered Falle clawed back that advantage and in a superb display of patient croquet, achieved the rare feat of scoring seven hoops in a row, to win 7-2.
- Falle received an handicap cut to 8 from Club Handicappers Frances Colman and Chris Roberts,
- And with this tournament victory, Fall also qualifies for the end of season National Final of the C-Level (7+) Series.
- Congratulations Pete!
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Golf Croquet C-level National Series Tournament, 26th April 2023
26 April 2023 - Kevin Ward wins our National C-Level (7+) Series tournament - and qualifies for the National Final
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Kevin Ward's tournament victory headed a great day for Phyllis Court today as our club dominated this National C-Level (7+) Series tournament.
Not only did our club fill 11 of the 16 places, they showed very well indeed in the final positions too, with Alastair Broom finishing runner-up, Steve Morton third amongst home players qualifying from the block for the afternoon main knock-out.
The four morning blocks were very evenly contested with only Morton winning all three games, and the other three blocks all had to be decided on net hoop scores to separate players tied on two wins each.
One had to feel for visitors Paul Brown (Sussex County) and Nigel Wulco (Camerton and Peasedown) who both missed the 'cut' by a single hoop.
Only top seed Carol Jamieson (Blewbury) and Phil Hendy (C & P) kept the visitors' hopes alive in the main knock-out and the latter fell in the quarter finals to Broom.
In the other quarters Ward beat late replacement Hugh Crook, Morton beat Christine Searle, and Jamieson got past Ruth Raunkiaer.
The semis were unexpectedly one-sided 7-1 successes for Ward and Broom over Morton and Jamieson respectively, and then Ward established an early lead in the final to win 7-3.
Meanwhile a fully completed plate event was won by Wulco to give the visitors some consolation.
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This victory for Ward sees him join Broom in qualifying for the end of season National C-Level (7+) Final at Guildford on 16-17 September.
Congratulations Kevin