Rachel Gee won the English National Singles Golf Croquet Championship – again

On 19th and 20th of September, against top class opposition,  Rachel Gee won the English National Singles Golf Croquet Championship, and retained the Ascot Cup, without dropping a single game over the whole weekend (winning all 6 of her best-of-3 matches by 2-0). The detailed results are here https://croquetscores.com/2020/gc/english-national-singles-championship-ascot-cup/championship . 

This premier GC event was held at Southport Croquet Club, and all the semifinalists were Nottingham Croquet Club members (Rachel Gee, James Death, Richard Bilton and Ian Burridge). 

Congratulations to Rachel on this remarkable achievement.

A fuller report is available here https://www.croquet.org.uk/?p=press/news&NewsID=7134

 

St Albans beat Nottingham in Secretary’s Shield semi-final

The semi-final of the Secretary's Shield (handicap Association Croquet) was closely contested between St. Albans and Nottingham on Sunday 27th September 2020 at Nottingham. In the end the result depended on a golden hoop ending, with St Albans winning by four games to three.  

Results (St Albans names first):

Heather Bennett (3) & Stuart Stafford (16) lost to Omied Hallam (-1) and Debbie Watson (14)
Stephen Mills (6) lost to Roger Watson (-6) -16T
Roger Bowman (14) beat Andrew Beaumont (6) + 10

Heather Bennett (3) beat Omied Hallam (-1) +8
Stephen Mills (6) lost to Andrew Beaumont (6) -11
Roger Bowman (14) beat Roger Watson (7) +3
Stuart Stafford (16) beat Debbie Watson (14) +1 T (Golden hoop)