Dulwich Croquet Club

Dulwich players winning on the national stage

simon — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:10:56 +0000

Mark Ormerod won the CA Selectorss Weekend for “up and coming” players. This advanced association tournament is designed to encourage players with the potential to go on to compete in more national tournaments- in Mark’s case it is of course a second coming, as he used to compete at this level in the 80’s. Congratulations to Mark and we look forward to more success for him.

Meanwhile Kent’s golf inter-counties team had two Dulwich players, Simon Carter and Pierre Beaudry. The team won their seventh inter-counties title confirming their position as the most consistently successful inter-counties team. Congratulations also to them.

The winning team, Pierre (left) and Simon (right)

Fairbairns: Victory for the (slightly) halt and (a bit) lame

simon — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:25:52 +0000

The Winners

Michael Goodman amd John Reddish showed that age and recuperation from joint replacements is no bar to competitive croquet, convincingly winning the Fairbairns golf handicap doubles on 17th September with 4 wins out of 4. Gloria and Ken Watson chased them home with 3/4 while the rest of us admired and tried to play croquet.

For a more eloquent comentary on the day, our resident bard has written:

Thank you Simon for captaining this event
And to Pat whose lunch was heaven sent
We all enjoyed our eventful day
Although I truly have to say
That it would have been more fun to win
But losing is not such a terrible sin!
In the morning the sun shone on us all
But by afternoon it began to rain and squall
Michael and John proved a formidable pair
They truly deserved the trophy that they share
Ken and Gloria were worthy runners up
And the rest of us tried our best to catch them up
So sadly Simon and Pat, Jan and myself, and Robert and Anne
Were in order left behind
But at the end of the day we had such fun
we really, truly, did not mind!

JMP. 18/09/11

A new name on the Stephen Badger trophy 10-11 Sept

simon — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:18:36 +0000

James Benson was a worthy winner of the Badger trophy winning all five of his games, beating Pierre Beaudry, Eric Driver John Reddish and Simon Whiteley (twice- once by +26), together with a handicap reduction to 7.

First 2011 victory for Dulwich in Association A League

marko — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:57:37 +0000

Dulwich beat Tunbridge Wells 4-3 in the SECF Association A League. The match was played at Tunbridge in fine conditions on good lawns. Dulwich lead 2-1 before lunch (victories by David Collins and Ray Hall in the singles; Mark Ormerod and Ed Dymock losing a close fought doubles game by 2 points). Following a generous lunch laid on by our hosts, Dulwich won 2 of the 4 afternoon games (victories for Mark and David).

This completes Dulwich’s 4 matches in the Association A League for 2011, and leaves us on 1 victory out of a possible 4. However, we were not outclassed in any of our matches, and with a different “rub-of-the-green” could easily have been on 3 wins out of 4.

Dulwich-Littlehampton friendly 23 August

ray — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:31:05 +0000

In the rain
What a pain
We travelled to play our game
And they won!

Was it fun?
Well, we took our own lunch
And drank Ray’s wine with brunch
But the lawns were so telling
Just like seas in storms swelling
Of course the locals knew the ropes
And so we were left forlorn in our hopes
To repel the home team, which proved too hard
And we were often caught decidedly ‘off guard’!

So the scores were unequal
And we definitely need a sequel
To prove that Dulwich has guts
Against Littlehampton’s ruts
But a good day was had by all
Despite the drizzle, rain and squall
Even the Mayor turned out to greet us
We didn’t really expect such a fuss
But it was the ‘children’s space he came to see
Not the Dulwich team of Ray, Paul, Billy and me
Who’d travelled so far to be down
by the sea!

Janette

For the record - a mix of doubles and timed singles was won by the hosts 6-1 with some drawn. The lawns have been described by a well known GC authority as “challenging”

Ray

SECF Assoc A League @Tunbridge Wells

marko — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:02:11 +0000

Title: SECF Assoc A League @Tunbridge Wells
Location: Tunbridge Wells
Date: 2011-08-19

Dulwich lose SECF association A League match to Southwick

marko — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:30:58 +0000

On Monday July 10th Dulwich played Sussex County (Southwick) at home in the SECF association A League, losing 2-5 to a strong Southwick team as follows.

-5 mark ormerod (0.5) and ed dymock (1.5) lost to jack davies (-1) and paul castell(-0.5)

-19 david collins(2) lost to richard jackson (4)

+2 ray hall (6) beat john taylor (2)

-25 mark ormerod (0.5) lost to jack davies (-1)

-4 ed dymock (1.5) lost to paul castell(-0.5)

+9 david collins (2) beat john taylor (2)

-1T ray hall (6) lost to richard jackson (4)

Dulwich lose a close SECF A League match to strong Woking team

marko — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:20:19 +0000

On Sunday July 9th Dulwich played Woking away in the SECF association A League, losing 3-4 to a strong Woking team as follows. Two triple peels were completed.

+17 mark ormerod (0.5) and ed dymock (1.5) beat mike town (-0.5) and nick harvey(0)

-12 pierre beaudry (1.5) lost to alan edwards (0.5)

-26tp david collins (2) lost to malcolm bigg (0)

+3tp mark ormerod (0.5) beat mike town (-0.5)

+17 ed dymock (1.5) beat nick harvey (0)

-13 pierre beaudry (1.5) lost to malcolm bigg (0)

-11 david collins (2) lost to alan edwards(0.5)

Dulwich lose close fought match to Caterham in SECF U League

marko — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:54:05 +0000

On Friday July 8th Dulwich played Caterham at home in the SECF association U League, losing 3-4 as follows:

-3 mark ormerod (0.5) and robert laver (20) lost to jon male (0.5) and peter flowerday (20)

+12 ed dymock (1.5) beat tony reade (20)

-22 julian stair (7) lost to jeff rushby (6)

+25 mark ormerod (0.5) beat jon male (0.5)

-18 ed dymock (1.5) lost to jeff rushby (6)

-15 julian stair (7) lost to peter flowerday (20)

+4 robert laver (20) beat tony reade (20)

Mary Rose Association Advanced: Dulwich vs Purley Bury 7-0

simon — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:29:20 +0000

Mark Ormerod, Ed Dymock, David Colins and Simon Whiteley took on a team from Purley Bury in the second round of the Mary Rose Association advanced inter-club teams tournament.

Although the result was a clear win, many of the games were far from one-sided. It was good to welcome our near neighbours (in croquet terms) for a very convivial match played in a good spirit.