Sheffield retain Millennium Trophy Lancashire International Open GC Championship The 14th Lancashire International Open GC Tournament took place at Bury Croquet Club over the weekend 3/4 April 2014. Adrian & Dennis again ventured across the Pennines to try their luck against the great and the good of the croquet world. There were 16 entries, including two young young New Zealanders, who were amongst the 8 'seeds', six of whom had a -1 handicap ('professionals') as opposed to the rest of us who were really only club players ('amateurs'). As always in these type of tournaments, it's level play and, on Saturday, 19 point matches were arranged in two blocks of 8 players, each containing 4 of the 'seeds'. Play started at 9:00am and didn't finish until dusk. Each of our stalwarts managed to beat one of the 'seeds', winning three of their seven matches - not enough to get into the knockout stage. On Sunday, in addition to the main knockout event (best of 3), there was a consolation event for the other 8 players (all v all). Heavy rain in the afternoon made play even more testing but both our players won more than half their games, the decider between them being the last game of the day ! The winner of the main event was James Hopgood, who beat Paddy Chapman (NZ) 2-0 in the final. More information can be found at: http://www.croquetscores.com/2014/gc/lancashire-international-open-championship-eng/block-b YCF Tournaments for 2014 Several YCF tournaments have been planned for the 2014 season, including:
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