Scottish Croquet Association 
Trophy: A Shield donated by Stakis (now Hilton) Dunkeld House Hotel.
This event was first played at the Dunkeld House Hotel, partly as a means of promoting croquet, especially at that hotel. More recently it has been played at other venues.
It is played under the rules of Short Croquet.
Trophy: Donated by F.V.X. Norton.
Originally, the Secretary Trophy was donated for an Under-25 Handicap Championship, which was usually run throughout the season. At the time the Scottish Croquet Committee was set up (the predecessor of the SCA), there were many junior players, and Jack Norton’s trophy was designed to encourage them into competitive play.
In later years the Secretary Trophy was offered for a full-bisque competition with an age limit (latterly 18), but as there had been no entrants for several years it was decided in 1999 to reallocate the trophy to a new event.
The one-day tournament now consists of 14-point advanced games with bisques (from 1999, hoops 3 and 4 were the “lift hoops”; from 2006, SCA designated hoops 3 and 5 as the “lift hoops”).
From 1976 to 1979, Scotland and South Africa shared reciprocal challenge matches, the first being a resounding victory in Glasgow, and there being two Tests when the Scots were in South Africa. There was one final match in 1983, in Cape Town, drawn 3-3, in which Bill Spalding and Frank Norton were the only players available who played in that first match – Reg Bamford (then 15 years old) played at Number 1 for South Africa. This Test followed the tour to United States in 1982, where South Africa were also involved, although not playing against Scotland.
GB v USA Solomon Trophy
Trophy: A Silver two-handled Cup.
The series of annual (except in MacRobertson Shield years) matches between GB and USA started in 1985, and John Solomon presented the trophy in 1988. The CA Centenary Year Book states “The Solomon Trophy, a silver two-handled cup, was provided by the CA in 1988 for competition between representative teams from Great Britain (and Ireland) and the USA. The original trophy, made of American silver in about 1910, was stolen and was replaced in 1995 by one made in 1908 in Sheffield”.
GB won each year the match was played up to 2008. In December 2009, USA won 11-9 (one match unfinished) at Mission Hills Country Club, Palm Springs, California. In June / July 2011, USA retained the Trophy 11-6 (four matches unfinished) at Hamptworth Golf and Country Club, Salisbury, Wiltshire. In October 2012, GB won 13-8 in Bald Head Island, North Carolina, US, having reached the 11-match winning post with a day to spare. The 2013 match will be in England.
Keith Aiton, while a Scot, played in 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1998 (part) and 2008, and after changing allegiance to England, in 2012; Martin Murray played in 1989; Duncan Reeve played in 1992; Jonathan Kirby played in 2004 and 2008.
Trophy: A Tankard donated by Corla van Griethuysen.
Gleneagles Hotel was a big influence in the early days of the Scottish Croquet Committee and the Scottish Croquet Association, and in 1973 it was decided to hold what may have been the first-ever weekend event there, with an Open block and two full-bisque handicap blocks over three days. From 1974 the new Scottish Croquet Association decided to hold two weekend events there each year, this one in May (which evolved into the Spring Weekend) and one in September (which later moved into July and evolved into the Summer Weekend).
From 1977, it was held at Glasgow or Edinburgh. It returned to Gleneagles for 1983, 1987, 1988.
In 1990, the Spring Weekend event, with a single winner, replaced the Gleneagles (etc) May Weekend Tournament, which was played in several Blocks. A perpetual trophy was presented by Corla van Griethuysen.
