Another great day of Golf Croquet for the club with a real mix of experience and handicaps which saw some surprise results right up until the very end.
But to begin at the beginning. The grey-cloud-covered sky towered over the white-clad-mallet-wielding players as the warmed up, warmup-ridden pairs tossed coins, agreed colours, set timers and sped away from corner 4 to the hoop-bespattered lawns; avoiding hills and hummocks, bugs and blobs, wires, wasps and wondrous wildlife.
Spared screams, screeches, sour words and scenarios by single-banking set-tos, the first round witnessed results as various as +3 to +1t. Shivering sweater-wearing scene two saw similar scales but sunny lunch-snackle-chatter synergized synchronisities resulting in all four round 3 games finishing within time.
Semi-finals were played out in front of an appreciative applause-acknowledging audience and congratulations to Terry and Libby; David Hogg and David Hunt, who will face each other over a best-of-three match at finals weekend.
And the winners are …
| Block A | Brenda
Mary |
Christine
Brian |
David
David |
Linda
Jim |
Wins | Points | Pos’n |
| Brenda Midda
Mary Barnes |
-3t | -2 | -1t | 0 | 4 | ||
| Christine Haley
Brian McCausland |
+3t | -3t | -3 | 1 | 3 | ||
| David Hogg
David Hunt |
+2 | +3t | -2t | 2 | 2 | ||
| Linda Shaw
Jim Gregory |
+1t | +3 | +2t | 3 | 1 |
| Block B | Pam
Robin |
Tony
Steve |
Terry
Libby |
James
Peter |
Wins | Points | Pos’n |
| Pam Hendry
Robin Hendry |
-1 | +1 | -2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| Tony Willoughby
Steve Durston |
+1 | -3 | -1 | 1 | -2 | 4 | |
| Terry Young
Libby Howard-Blood |
-1 | +3 | -3 | 1 | +2 | 2 | |
| James Galpin
Peter Dyke |
+2 | +1 | +3 | 3 | 1 |
Semi Finals
| Winner of Block A
Linda Shaw / Jim Gregory |
v | Runner up of Block B
Terry Young / Libby Howard-Blood |
| Winner of Block B
James Galpin / Peter Dyke |
v | Runner up of Block A
David Hogg / David Hunt |
Finals
| Terry Young / LibbyH-Blood | v | David HHogg / David Hunt |
