Spalding Trophy 2018
25-26 August, Knightswood
Eight pairs contested the Spalding trophy at Knightswood this year, teams largely consisting of one low handicap and one high handicap player. Favourites, inasmuch as they had won the first two playings of the trophy and were the lowest of the low bisquers and the lowest of the high bisquers, were John Surgener and Bill Strachan. However the manager had introduced a complication by giving all the other teams a small number of bisques. He intended these to be used to allow promising breaks, particularly peeling ones, to continue after errors. In the event quite a few were used to pick up breaks. The competition was as usual played as alternate stroke doubles to the laws of advanced play.