St Albans Croquet Club
23rd September - First Coffee Morning on 5th October
The first coffee morning of the season will be held in Verdi's on 5th October at 10:30. As per the mail from Vicki please let her know if you can go.
18th September - Lawn Closed
The croquet lawn closes today - the ground staff are planning to scarify the lawn tomorrow, and hopefully re-seed and top-dress!
9th September - Arrangements for finals
The two finals in the internal competition are Mike vs David in the 14 point Mahoney and Jon vs David in the 26 point Verulam. As David's away for most of September and the lawn is likely to close at some point in September for Autumn Maintenance we're not going to hold a finals day. We may try and organise the 26 point final at another location, but its likely that the 14 point will be held over until next season. We'll post an update here when it is arranged.
4th September - We finished second in the Beds & Herts League
Enfield won the final game of the season in the Beds & Herts League which means we finish a very creditable second in the league for the second consecutive year. The league table is here. Many thanks to everyone who played for the team during the season.
22nd August - Busy couple of days in the Beds & Herts league
We played two games in the Beds & Herts league, we beat Northampton 3-1 at home, and drew with Wrest Park 3-3 away. That leaves us top of the table, but Enfield are in a good position to take the trophy. If they win or draw their final match they will win, but if Letchworth win, then we will win the trophy.
15th June - more photos from the doubles tournament
One of our new members (Ian Hawkins) is a keen photographer and was taking photos at the ASD Doubles tournament a few weeks ago. Click here to get to a version of the report with all the photos!
14th April - we appeared in the Times online!
The lawn/introductory course was captured by a drone flown by one of the Times' photographers and appeared in their online Times Sport Unseen gallery today. It's mainly a football gallery but we're very happy to be featured in it! The photo is below, and you can read the article (if you have a Times subscription) here. There is also a link to a PDF of the croquet bit of the page here.
Photo Credit - TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER MARC ASPLAND
7th April - Watering the lawn
Keeping the lawn watered is one of the easiest ways of improving the lawn. If you're able to help with the watering schedule (even once in the season is helpful!), please let Stephen know. Details are in an email sent out on the 7th April.
26th Mar - Lawn Open!
The lawn is now open for play and the 2024 Season has started!
A huge thank you to our set-up team of Heather, Stephen, Brian, Keith and Mike who completed the hoop-setting and fence replacement this morning in warm sunshine (a few pictures below)!
The fencing is now too high to step over to retrieve balls, but we are planning to install "ball stoppers" shortly. The west boundary side of the lawn now just has low posts and rope.
There are now leaflet holders in the shed where you can find :
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rule books,
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Introductory Course invitation leaflets,
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car-park CA cards to put on dashboard when you park in the Bowls car-park (please use them, and if there are none left, please let me know),
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forms for pegging down unfinished games,
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our new Club Constitution, and other documentation,
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a copy of the Gazette.
6th Mar - AC Courses
There are a number of AC (and GC) courses available. Roger's benefited from a couple of courses at High Wycombe and has suggested the following which are being run by the Chiltern Academy at High Wycombe:
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9 Apr - Improving your game for intermediate players (AC hcp 6-14) Coach R Allim
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19 Mar - Building better breaks (AC hcp 11-18) Coach R Pepperell
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20 Apr - Building better breaks (AC hcp 11-18) Coach T Elliott
Details of these courses (and all the Chiltern Academy courses) can be found at https://www.chilterncroquetacademy.org/
27th Feb - Dates from the AGM
At the AGM (report to follow later) the following dates for competitions and courses were announced:
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16th April - Improving your AC full-lawn game - Coaching Session
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2nd/9th/16th/23rd May - Introductory Course
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25th May (REVISED DATE) - AC full-lawn Alternate Shot Doubles Competition
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30th May - Coached AC games
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8th June - AC half-lawn Speed Doubles
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6th July - GC half-lawn "Fun-doubles"
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14th Sept - Club Finals Day (unless we win the league - as it would then clash with the EACF finals day!)
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21st Sept - Reserve for Club Finals Day
Further details will come out via e-mail
29th Jan - Website updated to 2024
The website has been updated to 2024, hence there's not a lot of things on this page! If you want to look at last year's news then you can see it here. There are a couple of new pages on the website:
