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Christmas Crackers Doubles 14 December
A fine lunch of soup, soup and more soup. Followed by a round of cheeses then Christmas pudding and cakes
Father Christmas flew in and won the shortened game in the snow by 3 - 2
Rotating Doubles Tuesday 15 November
Won by Alex with 4 wins out of 4
Second and third - Des and Steve/John G
The players below braved the very wet weather, had an excellent lunch and went home happy - probably for a warming bath or shower.
Mat, Jane and Des, Alistair, Sue Barnes Bailey, Rod, Alex, Sue R, Tim W, Helen, John GD, Peggy, John G/Steve.
Hollow tining and top dressing November.
Adrian, Colin T and Anne, Tim W, John GD and Alex (for a bit of tractor driving at the end!)
Many thanks to All.
Mat.
Rotating Doubles Saturday 24 September
Won by Alex Lake
Second and third - Rod and Brenda/Clive
A great day was had by one and all.
Players: Colin and Anne, Alex, Rod and Betty, Brenda/Clive, Des and Jane, Glenys and Tim, Helen, John Glyn Davies, Stephen Dutton.
Finals Day Saturday 17 September
Barbeque at 16:00
- GC Roger Ivill - Winner John Richardson
- GC Potter's Pot - Winner Alex Lake
- AC Handicap - Winner Mat Hardy
Sunday 4 September
Newport Oaks lost the EACF semi final by 2 games.
Team: Colin and Anne T, Trevor and Jane.
Pie and Advantage Play II
Saturday 3 September
A great day - won by Tim Hinch closely followed up by Tim Walder and Rod George
New Members Social/Competition
Saturday 13 August - Cancelled due to extreme heat
Oaks v Bury
4 August
Won by Oaks 16 - 2
Croquet Strawberry Tea
Sunday July 17 from 2pm - 5pm
Please come and join us for a game of croquet and enjoy a Strawberry Tea
£5 per person.
Please let me know if are able to attend.
Best wishes
Glenys Walder ( Social Secretary )
EACF Downham Market v Elms Thursday 30 June
Adrian Seabrook (2), Tim Walder (4), Sue Roberts (11)
J. Well (4), R. Cole (4), I. Thompson (5)
Won 7 - 3
Sue Roberts won both of her singles.
Jubilee Day Thursday 2 June
Open and B level GC fixtures
- B Level v Chelmsford on Tuesday 12 July, Home
- B Level v Colchester Tuesday 26 July, Away
- Open v Great Dunham Tuesday 2 August, Home
- B Level v Bury St Edmunds Tuesday 16 August, Away
Murphy Shield High Wycombe v Newport 17 May, Away
High Wycombe won 4 - 3
EACF B-Level Newport v Norwich Friday 13 May
Newport: Colin Carr (3), Fran Lambert (4), Trevor Phillips (7), Sally Carr (8)
Norwich: Trevor Whittaker (3), Jeremy Acore (4), Simon Draper (4), Jane Burton (7)
Final score 9 - 9
Advantage Pie and Play Tuesday 3 May
Winner Jane
The Pie Eating Contest provided a stunning introduction to the Advantage Golf Croquet trial.
Sixteen contestants braved the chilly day and pitted their wits against the rigours of the Advantage Croquet scoring system.
Despite total bafflement, the sixteen warriors tackled each other with aplomb and produced some surprising results. All this, despite the handicaps, produced by massive consumption of quiches, pork pies and sausage rolls.
Betty did a sterling job keeping the score sheet and multi tasking in the kitchen.
Thank you to all the contestants and everyone who helped to make the day a great success.
Elms v Oaks EACF leagues 2022
Our EACF competitive season got underway on Tuesday 26th April with NCC Oaks playing NCC Elms.
Matches we’re played in cool, calm weather on lawns in superb condition.
We fielded two ‘debutants’ who played well and seemed to enjoy the occasion; well done to Rod and Trevor.
Fran kept us all in order, managing timings, order of play and scoring.
Speaking of scoring… Oaks 12, Elms 6.
Enjoy the rest of the season teams!
- Oaks on the left: Mat, Colin T, Anne and Trevor.
- Elms on the right: Adrian, John, Roy and Rod.
Season Opening Soup Lunch
The Summer '22 season got off to a tumultuous start with Operation Soup Lunch.
Record numbers of members attended and consumed around 40 pints of soup and numerous crusty baguettes. Most of the imbibers still managed to take part in the doubles games that followed in the glorious sunshine with play lasting until tea was served.
Many thanks to Glenys for overseeing the Operation and to all those who cooked the many and various soup concoctions. It was a great team effort with many members helping to serve, wash-up and shift furniture about.
It was also lovely to see many members who have only just come out of hibernation.
Operation Soup also added a nice fat sum of £160 to the club coffers.
A fantastic effort all round.
Coming Up and External Competitions
N.B Club sessions are now Monday Wednesday and Friday
- Oaks v Elms 26 April, Tuesday
- Advantage Pie and Play 3 May, Tuesday
- Newport v Norwich home B level 13 May, Friday
- Newport v High Wycombe away Murphy Shield 17 May, Tuesday
- Newport v Norwich away Open 1 June, Wednesday
- Elms v Great Dunham home 7 June
- Oaks v Great Dunham away 5 July
- Newport v Chelmsford home in the Open 12 July
- Strawberry Tea 17 July 14:00 Sunday
- Newport v Great Dunham home 2 August
For more dates see the calendar page
Internal competitions
- Monthly handicap leagues will begin in April
- Potter's Pot - Singles handicap knockout
- President's Plate - singles handicap Knockout for first round losers in the Potter's Pot
- Gordon's Goblet - Doubles knockout
- Roger IvIll - Level play. 2 one day competitions followed by a final.
Finals 17 September Saturday
Weather permitting all finals will be best of three games.
