Club

Croquet

Wrest Park

Charity 1-Ball tournament 27 April

The Red Platoon on manoeuvres: l-r Gill Brewer, George Collin, Eric Audsley, Tim Brewer, Ross Bagni, Judith Pengelly, David Marsh, Peter Aspinall, Bryan Harral, Rod Ashwell, Tim Nurse.

report by manager David Marsh

The national Charity 1-Ball competition has been run for many years. 2024 was the first time that Wrest Park have run a heat with the leading players going through to play in one of the national finals in Surbiton on Nottingham. The national charity for 2024 was the British Heart Foundation with players encouraged to wear something red.

12 players assembled on a rather cold, though dry day in late April. One-ball has its own handicap system derived from existing AC/GC handicaps as appropriate.  Resulting handicaps ranged from -5 to 15. One-ball is an ideal introduction to AC for GC players and it was great to have Judith, Gill and Ross join those that mainly play AC. The tournament was managed using Andy Dibben’s Excel spreadsheet mentioned in the latest Croquet Gazette and worked extremely well.

In the end a total of 47 games were played with 64% of those being won by a margin of 4 or fewer hoops. The handicapping system worked well with 20 games being won by the higher handicapper, 21 by the lower handicapper and 6 games played level. Eric was declared the winner with 6 wins from 8 games with Peter, David Woolley and Tim Brewer tying for second on 5 wins from 8 games. Eric, Peter and Tim are going to play in the Nottingham final on the 11th May.

The day was very enjoyable, despite the cold wind, and we raised £200 for the BHF. Definitely something to be repeated in 2025.

Played

Won

Net

Hoops

%

Wins

Win

Grouping

GP 1

Wins

GP 2

Wins

Other

Wins

Ranking

Eric Audsley

8

6

22

75%

1


1

5

1

David Woolley

8

5

9

63%

2


1

4

2

Peter Aspinall

8

5

3

63%

2


1

4

3

Tim Brewer

8

5

-2

63%

2

1

1

3

4

Rod Ashwell

7

4

6

57%

3

1

1

2

5

Tim Nurse

9

5

12

56%

4


1

4

6

Gill Brewer

6

3

3

50%

5



3

7

Bryan Harral

9

4

-9

44%

6


2

2

8

David Marsh

7

3

6

43%

7


1

2

9

George Collin

8

3

-10

38%

8



3

10

Judith Pengelly

8

3

-7

38%

8



3

11

Ross Bagni

8

1

-33

13%

9



1

12

© Wrest Park Croquet Club

Peter Aspinall, Eric Audsley and Tim Brewer
at the Nottingham final on 11 May