Scottish Golf Croquet Championship 2023

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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European Golf Croquet Championship 2023

Budleigh Salterton, 25-28 May 2023

The event was won by Rachel Gee from England beating Aston Wade in a repeat of last year’s final but with the result reversed.

32 players from 12 different countries were represented: 5 each from England and Spain; 3 each from Finland, Ireland, Sweden, Wales and Switzerland; 2 each from Germany and Norway; and 1 each from Czech Republic, Latvia and Scotland (with myself David Fell representing Scotland).

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Scottish Masters 2023

13-14 May, Meadows

John Owen won the Scottish Masters with 4 out of 5 wins, losing only to James Hopgood who won all his 3 games but didn’t play enough games in the Swiss to be in the running for the title. Alastair Burn-Murdoch also had 4 out of 5 wins but John had won their match 26-22.

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