Malmet Trophy 2023
16-18 September, Meadows
Stefan Colling won the Malmet Trophy, winning all his games.
Chairman's Rosebowl 2023
16-18 September, Meadows
The beautiful late summer weather broke just in time for the Chairman's & Malmet weekend, which was forecast to be cold and wet. Happily, most of the heavy rain fell in the night and the lawns coped well, with only a small area of one lawn adversely affected. With a tight handicap range of -1 to 1, all the contestants were potential winners.
SCA v CA 2023
26-27 August 2023, Meadows
The annual match between the SCA and the CA was played over the English August Bank Holiday weekend at the Meadows. There was a change to the format this year as, due to a family bereavement, one of the English team had to drop out at the last moment. Rosemary Saunders Robertson graciously withdrew from our team so we ended up with two 5-man teams which, in turn, created a flow of emails to agree a revised format. The new format consisted of a mix of singles and doubles for the first four rounds and concluded with a round of singles where each member of the team played their opposite number in ranking order.
Edinburgh Tournament 2023
6-12 August, Balgreen
Spalding Trophy 2023
20 August 2023, Knightswood
Despite a rather uncertain weather forecast the Spalding Alternate Stroke, Advanced play competition enjoyed a warm and sunny day throughout. On the Saturday night before the competition the manager had six pairs evenly matched using a combination of high and low handicaps. Unfortunately with a late withdrawal there was a need to improvise with the competition rules. It was decided that one player (Rosemary Saunders Robertson) would compete as a single player but would need to peel one of her own balls in each of her games (she managed it in 2 out of 3). This rule was extended to round 3 for Roger Binks.