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24th June 2008
Terry Wins Milennium Handicap Tournament
Image courtesy of Pendle & Craven CC
Terry, pictured here with runner up John Lucas, becomes the third Fylde member to have won the Northwest Federation's Millennium Trophy. Held at Pendle & Craven this year the twelve contestants Battled through constant rain on day one. Terry went into the second day with 3/3. Sunday was dry but extremely windy. So strong was the wind that the ball stops were occasionally being moved. Terry won both the remaining games, beating Robin Delves in the final. Our other representative, Leo Ainsworth, finished fourth equal.
21st June 2008
New lawns opened
The two new short lawns have been white lined and cut. The Boss hit the first ball and declared them a bit slow at the moment, but further cutting will improve them she added.
6th June 2008
Mexico Trophy
Southport and Birkdale Croquet Club played Fylde in a charity tournament with all funds going to the Southport Lifeboat fund. It is intended that this will become an annual event played at Southport and Fylde year on year about with the funds next year going to the RNLI via the Lytham Life Boat. A Southport member has donated a trophy known as the Mexico trophy which commemorates the great lifeboat disaster of December 1886 when the boats of both Southport and Lytham capsized with the loss of twenty seven crew whilst going to the aid of the barque Mexico.
1st June 2008
Lee wins pendle
The Pendle & Craven B Level Advanced Tournament final was an all Fylde affair between Lee and Peter. After a bright start, Golden Boy's hoop running deserted him and the Machine warmed up changing down to a well oiled handicap 2 as a result. See the match report on P&C's website.
19th May 2008
Freemasons on the lawns
The Freemasons will be trying Croquet on the 15th June. Please come along and help with the event. Contact Ian, Betty or Liz.
9th May 2008
Style in the fylde
There was a large turn out of members in white today to meet the photographer and journalist from the glossy magazine 'Style in the Fylde'. Several members were interviewed and many photographs taken while games were played in the late evening sunshine. Keep an eye open for the next issue in a few weeks.
30th April 2008
You can not be serious
Read Daisy Root's Blog here.
30th April 2008
Defence of the longman starts at bowdon
After a round one bye we meet Bowdon in the Longman Cup. The full draw can be seen here.
17th April 2008
Lee wins trophy at pendle
Pendle's Easter tournament was a difficult opener of the season with Easter coming so exceptionally early this year. Snow and rain delayed play on more than one occasion, but Lee overcame these obstacles picking up the Low Bisquer's Trophy and gaining a handicap reduction to 2.5 in the process. Betty made an encouraging start to the season playing all four days and finishing in a respectable mid table position.
12th April 2008
LAWNS MARKED
Four short and two full lawns were marked out by Norman, Liz & Peter. The hoops were set and marked. White lines should be applied in the next few days.
21st March 2008
FIX IT DAY
There was as good turn out on a cool spring like morning. The lawns were repaired and cleared. Ball stops checked over and the equipment locker fitted out to accommodate the new hoops and balls. An area on the South boundary has been cleared, levelled and covered. This will provide a seating area and possible site for the gazebo during matches.
17th March 2008
CHANGE TO GOLF LAWS
The Laws of Golf Croquet 2008 (3rd Edition) come into force on 15th March. Alan will be contacting team players with a synopsis of the changes.
12th March 2008
CHANGE TO ASSOCIATION LAWS
A new edition of the laws is to be issued soon and the changes will take effect from 15th March. The club will be providing some coaching on the new laws as soon as possible and all members will be contacted with the date. Meanwhile some selected new laws are discussed in the ref's blog.
9th March 2008
GOLF CROQUET HANDICAPS
There has been a change to the handicapping system for Golf Croquet. From the start of this season each player must make a one off adjustment to their current Golf handicap by adding 4 to it. The Golf Handicaps will now span 12 to 0. Note that the highest handicap previously allowed of 6 now becomes 10 in the new system and the new range allows this to go up by 2 more to 12.
8th March 2008
SEASON STARTS 30th MARCH
Work days have been arranged for the 16th and 24th March between 10am and 4pm in order to prepare the lawns for the start of the season. Please attend and lend a hand if you can.
29th February 2008
ABDUL IN CAPE TOWN
Abdul has been selected to be one of the referees the World Golf Croquet Championship being held in cape Town between the 8th and the 16th of March.
Follow the tournanemt at the offical site here.
23rd February 2008
CA TOURNAMENT CALENDAR
The CA has produced an online calendar database thingy where you can explore the tournaments which are planned for the year ahead. Click here to view.
17th January 2008
YOUTUBE CROQUET
Take a look in the Information page for a new section of YouTube videos.
9th January 2008
FRIDGE INSTALLED
A fridge has been donated to the club and is now installed in the clubhouse.
15th December 2007
LOGO AVAILABLE
'1st Class Kids' on Highfield Road (almost opposite Garton Rd), Blackpool now have our logo set up and ready for stitching! They will sew it onto anything you care to take in for £2.50. You can also buy fruit of the loom polo shirts (£7.99) or sweat shirts (£10.99) or anything else in their catalogue and they will apply the logo. They have all sizes and styles in for you to try first
5th November 2007
ARCHIVED
The 2007 news was archived.
11th December 2007
