KCC Current Season Results 2023/2024
Another success for KCC
Plimmerton Croquet Club’s annual Easter GC Singles Tournament was run in four handicap grades. This year, Garry Robertson, a KCC member for two years, entered the grade for players with handicaps of 9 or higher.
This competition was held on Easter Monday, 1 April. It was played initially as two, round robin groups of five, followed by a playoff between the winners from each group to determine the overall winner.
At the first stage, Garry clearly won the Group B section by 4 games to zero. He then went on to defeat the Group A winner by a score of 7-4 to take the overall prize, donated by Summerset Aotea. During the tournament, he also reduced his handicap for the second time this season.
Well played Garry!
Petone-Central social visit to Khandallah on14 March
Jennifer Mackrell, our KCC President welcomed a group of six GC players from Petone-Central on a calm and sunny morning. Roger Hurnard, Club Captain, then explained the format of the games. This was like the one used at Muritai the previous week and involved nine, double-banked games of 6 hoop doubles with a 25-minute time limit. Scoring was based on the number of hoops won, rather than the number of games won.
Play started at 9:30 am and was completed by 12:30pm. A light lunch was then provided.
Result
Khandallah defeated Petone-Central by 27 points to 17. The KCC teams were: K1: David Littlejohn & David Hutton; K2: Garry Robertson & Liz Beresford; K3: Charles Beresford & Sandra Gaelic.
Khandallah group visit to Muritai on 7 March
Six players travelled to Eastbourne to enjoy an afternoon of quick-fire games and a delicious afternoon tea hosted by the Muritai Croquet Club.
Like KCC they have only a single lawn, so the format of play was the one used during their visit to KCC earlier in the season where three teams from each club played a round robin competition. This involved nine, triple-banked games of 6 hoop doubles with a 25-minute time limit. Scoring was based on the number of hoops won, rather than the number of games won.
Results
Games were tied at 4½ each. However, KCC won on hoops scored, 26 to 21 and so retained the Challenge Mug.
The KCC Players
The KCC teams were:
K1: David Littlejohn & Janet Stribling;
K2: David Hutton & Sandra Gaelic;
K3: Heather Hutton & Chris Sissons.
Kelburn Vs Khandallah Invitation Tournament at Kelburn CC
Kelburn invited Khandallah to a friendly tournament which took place on Wednesday Feb. 28th A very enjoyable afternoon of play was had, despite the showers. The overall result was a draw.
Thank you to our hosts Kelburn CC.
The Players:
Charles Beresford and Christine Burr
Marj Lawson and Glenys Lloyd
Julie Reid and David, a stand in player from Kelburn CC.
Alison Thorn and Trevor Burr
KCC Singles levels competition for handicaps of 8 to 11
Four KCC members entered this competition, run on Saturday 24 February. This allowed it to be structured as a simple round robin format that involved three rounds of double-banked 13-hoop games. The weather was unexpectedly cool and windy, but the overall standard of play was very good, and the players appreciated the hot sausage rolls provided by Ros Paterson to sustain them. Play was completed by lunchtime.
Results: The overall winner was David Littlejohn, followed by Andrew Crisp, Julie Reid and Bill Paterson.
By the completion of this competition, David had succeeded once again in reducing his handicap.
KCC Twighlight Doubles Tournament
This club tournament was run over four consecutive Wednesday afternoons/evenings between 24 January and 14 February 2024. The weather was kind, unlike in some previous years, so all games were completed without any interruptions or postponement.
Nine teams were selected so that the combined handicaps of each pair were similar, and the 13-hoop games were played as levels doubles, with a time limit of 50 minutes per game. Each team played two games including a BBQ supper break each evening. This meant that a full round robin was completed in four weeks. The rules allowed for substitute players to be used when a regular player was unavailable.
The final results were:
1st John Tiley and Marj Lawson (7 wins, 21 net points);
2nd David Littlejohn and Karen Armstron (7 wins, 13 net points);
3rd Alison Bayly and Sandra Gaelic (6 wins, 14 net points);
4th Garry Robertson and Andrew Crisp (5 wins, 8 net points);
KCC Singles for handicaps of 12 plus
This competition was held on Wellington Anniversary Day in warm, fine weather, apart from a short passing shower. The eight entrants were split into two blocks to play 7-hoop games, with a 25 min time limit. This was followed by playoff games for 1st/2nd and 3rd/ 4th place overall.
During the course of the competition, both Andrew Crisp and Marj Lawson succeeded in lowering their handicaps.
Results: The overall winner was Janet Stribling, following by Andrew Crisp, Karen Armstrong, and Ali Pandelidis. Congratulations to all for a successful and enjoyable morning’s play.
WCC Sunday Interclub
Khandallah entered three, 2-player teams in this GC handicap competition, which involved sixteen teams overall and was split into two groups of eight teams. The group stage comprised seven matches, with a final match played between the winners of each group.
Khandallah 1 (Rob Egginson and David Littlejohn) won all their matches in Group B and so qualified for the final.
Khandallah 2 (Alison Thorn and Marj Lawson) won 3 of the 6 matches they played in Group A.
Khandalllah 3 (Jennifer Mackrell and Ali Pandelidis) won 2 of their matches in Group B.
The final match-up, between Khandallah 1 and the Kelburn 4 team, was held on 26 November at Waimarie Hutt Valley. Khandallah won that match 5-0.
1st Khandallah 1
2nd Kelburn 4
WCA Wednesday Interclub Competition.
This was a three-player team competition. Each match involved a series of doubles and singles levels games. Players were grouped into three grades, A, B or C, based on handicap level. The Khandallah team comprised Roger Hurnard, Rob Egginson and Garry Robertson. Substitute players were required on three days and these gaps were kindly filled by Charles Beresford, Alison Thorn and David Littlejohn.
There were seven team entries from five clubs.
1st Kelburn
2nd Khandallah
3rd Plimmerton 1
On 9 November Khandallah hosted a morning visit from eight players from the Muritai Club in Eastbourne. The weather was fine, and our lawn was in good condition. A series of quick-fire doubles games were played, with four pairs from each club playing three of the pairs from the other club. This involved triple-banked games of 6 hoops, each with a 25-minute time limit.
Points were awarded based on the number of hoops scored, rather than on the number of games won. The session concluded with a light lunch.
Khandallah won by 42 points to 26
Labour Day Competition
Our club competition with changing partners was held in ideal conditions, a relief to all after a difficult wet and windy start to the season. There were 16 entries and each player played three, level doubles games of 7-hoop golf croquet, with a different, partner for each game.
First Alison Thorn (3 wins, 12 hoops)
Second Andrew Crisp (3 wins, 10 hoops)
Third Ali Pandelidis (2 wins, 11 hoops)
Fourth David Littlejohn (2 wins, 10 hoops, 5 net hoops)
Fifth Bill Paterson (2 wins, 10 hoops, 4 net hoops
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