Croquetwest

The Golf Croquet Australian Open Doubles & Singles is currently underway at ACA Headquarters at Cairnlea, Melbourne.  

The doubles final was won by John van der Touw & Anne Quinn with Kevin Beard & Rosie News runner-up.  Chris McWhirter & Kim Reynolds finished  3rd, winning the playoff 2-1.  Here is a link to the croquetscores.com for the doubles.

The singles has started and goes through to Sun 19th May.  Here is a link for the singles results on croquetscores.com

Croquetwest is trialling a new automated process for calculating handicaps. As each tournament that affects handicaps is completed a spreadsheet detailing the games, in order, will be filled in automatically and will generate a new set of rankings and handicaps.  

Results from the Men’s and Women’s Singles run at the weekend have already been processed and details of the calculations for each tournament can be found here.

The latest Golf Croquet handicaps and rankings are to be found here under the player tab.

Photo’s from the Gold Medal, Men’s & Women’s Singles and Eire Cup are now available, as well as the photo’s from the Mayoral Reception and Presentation Dinner. Congratulations to all those involved!

The winner of the 2012 Eire Cup is New South Wales, second Victoria and Western Australia came third!

Detailed scores are available at www.croquetscores.com.  Daily results and the final ladder can be found on the ACA Eire Cup page under the Nationals/Eire Cup menu item.

MEN’S SINGLES
Main event final – Robert Fletcher beat Stephen Forster 3-2
3 v 4 play-off – Stephen Richards beat Ian Dumergue w/o
5 v 6 play-off – Jim Nicholls beat Alan Sands 2-0
9 v 10 play-off (Y) – Greg Bury beat Jeff Newcombe 2-0
13 v 14 play-off (W) – Alan Walsh beat Don Close 2-0
Plate – winner Ken Edwards 

WOMEN’S SINGLES
Main event final – Alison Sharpe beat Sue Beattie 3-1
3 v 4 play-off – Tricia Devlin beat Marga Podnieks 2-0
5 v 6 play-off – Charlotte Morgan beat Merryl Garrod 2-0
9 v 10 play-off – Elaine Coverdale beat Fleur Brockway 2-0
Plate – winner Claire Bamford 

Winner of the Gold Medal for 2012 is Ian Dumergue from Western Australia.

The Silver Medal was won by Stephen Forster from Victoria on a count back from Stephen Richards from NSW.

Croquetwest congratulates the following players on their selection to Golf Croquet State Team Squad 2012:

Sue Anderson, Sandy Boon, Fleur Brockway, Peter Brown, Martin Clarke, Peter Hopwood, Ross Marshall, Chris McWhirter (State Coach), Craig Merrey, Michael Murphy, Wendy Prendiville, Kim Reynolds and Susan Sands.

Congratulations also to these players on their selection to the 2012 Development Squad:

Nathan Aurish-Pike, Sam Aurish-Pike, Coral Broun, Di Gilbert, Janine McHardy, Judith Nicholls, Lyn O’Reilly, Dawn Robinson, Henry Smith, Michael Trefusis-Paynter, Diane Wellby, Matthew Whitfield.          

Here’s some more details about master classes for which you can enrol before the Pre-Worlds Event to be held in Bunbury at Moorabinda Club in April this year. 

• Congratulations to Chris McWhirter, selected as Western Australia’s Golf Croquet State Coach for 2012.  This year’s State Team Squad will be selected soon and serious work will begin on this season’s campaign.
• Thanks so much to the many of you who responded to our call for help with the Association Croquet Events Secretary role.  We’re delighted to announce that Bill Roy has stepped up.  A long time member of the Match Sub-Committee, Bill is both experienced and very knowledgeable and we’re fortunate he can take on this role for a while.  
• Also in the events area, there’s been some discussion on play-through etiquette in double-banked golf croquet games.  The Match Sub-Committee reminds you that Western Australia follows the ACA direction on this and that the first game to the hoop has right of way; the other game marks their balls; first game to hoop makes hoop and plays on to next where they then mark their balls; other game replaces balls and plays on.  Of course, we acknowledge that Clubs are free to establish their own etiquette guidelines for play within the club.
• You may have noticed a new calendar summary option under this website’s Events tab.  We thought a summary of events coming up might be handy for your noticeboard.  If you just print the first page, you’ll have our eye-catching new logo and brief details of the next five or six events.  We’ll still be producing and distributing flyers for each event but hope this additional notice might be helpful.

Croquetwest (supported by the Department of Sport and Recreation) is hosting the Australian Croquet Association (ACA) Nationals in Perth in March 2012.  

• 14-16 March: Gold Medal (AC) at Forrest Park Headquarters
• 17-20 March: Men’s and Women’s Singles (AC) at various metro clubs 
• 21-25 March: Eire Cup Interstate (AC) at Cambridge, Como and Nedlands

Entry forms are now available on the ACA website under tournament program.  Entries close 24 February.   

For more information see the Nationals/Eire Cup section of this website.