22-23 April 2017, Knightswood
The Glasgow Open took place at Knightswood, the new home of Glasgow Croquet Club, over the weekend of 22-23 April. Sadly this year the entries were reduced, with only 5 entered. Campbell and Jane came and swelled the numbers on Saturday but unfortunately could not manage the Sunday due to a commitment at Balgreen. The weather was kind sunny dry and fairly warm in fact two players were complaining of sunburn on their unprotected heads on Sunday morning.
John Campbell, a relatively high handicapper from Argyll (Tarbert), came and joined the event in order to learn more about advanced rules. He coped well managing to win two games.
Campbell Morrison won all three of his matches on Saturday, just scraping by in the match against John Surgenor +1 on time. He would probably have won the event had he been able to compete on the Sunday but as his commitment to Balgreen took precedence this let John retain the trophy having 4 wins from 5 games.
John Surgenor, Manager
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10-11 September 2016, Albury and Westburn
Jim Wilson of Keswick won the Aberdeen & Crathes handicap weekend beating Brian Durward in a close final. Both players had looked strong in their blocks, winning three games each, and Jim went on to beat the Block 4 winner, David Houston in one semi-final. Brian looked as though he was going to lose to Keswick bandit Tom Ryan in the other semi-final, but a turn after time to take his second ball around won him the applause of the admiring spectators and a spot in the final. With Jim’s train departure looming the time limit was reduced to an hour and a half but in fact this wasn’t needed with both players playing well. A missed pegout by Jim gave Brian a good chance towards the end when he hit the remaining ball, but a missed short roquet at penult was fatal and Jim hit and finished. Janice Duguid won the block runners up prize of a bottle of SCA wine, beating Brian Clark in the final.
Read more: Aberdeen Tournament 2016
