Scottish Croquet Association

Spring Weekend 2015

25-26 April, Meadows

There were 14 entrants for this year's Spring Weekend and, with the forecast rain clearing early on the Saturday, the weather remained fair, but cool, for the majority of the weekend.

Time limits of 3 hours, plus 3 minutes per bisque, were set and, whilst many games went to peg, these still required the majority of the allotted time. This was most likely due to the prevalence of players with higher handicaps.

At the end of the first day's play, only Alan Wilson and Bill Strachan remained unbeaten and, when they played the following morning, it was Alan who won a close encounter.

Going into the final round of games, Alan had a 10 point advantage over his nearest rivals, Chris Martin and Robert Inder, with the outcome only becoming clear when Alan and Chris both recorded victories.

Full credit must go to Alan, not only for remaining unbeaten but for overcoming so many competent higher handicap players.

This was the first handicap tournament where both starting and finishing indexes were recorded for each competitor and Alan took the opportunity to successfully trial a program he had written to verify the outcome.

Over the weekend, the handicaps for Joe Lennon and Lyn Gilpin altered to 12 and 20 respectively.

Hamish Duguid, Manager

Egyptian System