Scottish GC Junior Championship
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1991 |
Clair Short |
Eric Murdoch |
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1992 |
James Short |
Roland Murdoch |
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Scottish Handicap Doubles
Trophy: A Pair of Croquet Balls (mounted) donated by Glasgow Croquet Club.
This competition was launched in 1975, and one of its initial aims was to encourage more high-bisquers to play in competitive events, with the combined handicap of pairs deliberately set at ten or more. Glasgow CC generously presented the SCA with two beautiful specimens of the old wooden balls, complete with coloured rings, mounted on steel pins set in wooden bases – one for each of the winning pair.
This is a knockout competition for pairs with a combined handicap not lower than 5, played throughout the season. (In 2003 and previous years the minimum combined handicap was 10.) The final is usually scheduled to be played on the same day in September as the Handicap Singles final, and possibly the Inter-Club League final.
Scottish Masters
Trophy:
This tournament was introduced in 1991 to replace the Invitation Doubles events which had been first used at the Official Opening of the first National Croquet Centre at Bush in 1989 and repeated in 1990. It was and still is intended to be a high quality event. Play is under advanced rules. From 2009, any unallocated places are advertised outside Scotland (until then it was restricted to SCA members, as one of the ways of bringing on potential Scottish International players).
Scottish Handicap Singles
Trophy: A Silver Quaich donated by the Scottish Clubs in 1968.
This event was first played in 1967 as part of the first Championship Finals Day, covered in more detail in the description of the Scottish Open Championship. From 1968, the Scottish Croquet Committee introduced a formal annual handicap competition, the final of which continued to be played on Finals Day each year. Nowadays the final is usually scheduled to be played on the same day in September as the Handicap Doubles final, and possibly the Inter-Club League final.
Read more: Scottish Handicap Singles
Scottish Open
Trophy: the “Moffat Mallet” donated by Edinburgh Croquet Club
Runner-up (since 2008): the Burnett Cup donated by Bob Burnett
Consolation event (since 2003): the Edinburgh Plate donated by the SCA
Since 2003, the Championship is a knock-out seeded by ranking; first round to consist of single games, quarter-finals and semi-finals best of 3, final best of 3 or best of 5 at manager’s discretion. There is also a consolation event (flexible Swiss, with results from the main event carried over) open to all those knocked out before the final of the main event. Meadows West can take a maximum of 14 entries.
History:
David Appleton has published a book (2009) The history of the Scottish Croquet Championship 1870 – 1914, and it is from that publication with permission that the relevant details of the winners and runners-up to 1914 have been reproduced. There were also Gold Medal Winners in Scotland for some years from 1908 – these names are taken from a 1913/14 Royal Insurance “Record of Sports” Encyclopaedia copied for the Editor by Bill Spalding: