5 August 2023, Knightswood
There were teams from Aberdeen, Auchincruive, Glasgow and Meadows for this annual tournament, held at Knightswood in Glasgow. All arrived on time despite real and ficticious road closures due to the UCI world cycling championships. We were fortunate that Storm Antoni headed across England, and Glasgow escaped relatively unscathed, with just a few afternoon showers.
Aberdeen’s first game was against Auchincruive, and it was agreed to play Alternate Stroke Doubles (this ended up being the only match of the tournament to use ASD). Aberdeen took their first ball all the way to the peg and Auchincruive did likewise, aided by Kevin spectacularly running 2-back from near 1-back. Their plan was to peg out the Aberdeen ball, but after that wasn’t possible, Aberdeen turned the tables and pegged out the Auchincruive ball, leaving two balls against one, which allowed Aberdeen to complete a 18-13 win.
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3 June 2023, Balgreen
Alastair Burn-Murdoch won the Scottish GC Championship at Balgreen in his first ever GC ranking tournament. 16 players took part, including all 8 of the women’s team travelling to Co. Cork later on in June to play against the CAI women. Of these, Rosemary, Kathy and Kim all progressed to the championship blocks, along with Alan, Kenny, Stefan, Alastair and Mark. Stefan and Alastair won these blocks convincingly, winning all three games, and went on to contest a competitive best of three final. Stefan took the first game in the late evening sunshine but Alastair took the next two and the championship.
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