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This handsome trophy which will be awarded annually to the most successful player in a series of club competitions was due to be presented at the AGM in April which was postponed. Then it was going to be awarded at the July members Melee which was postponed so we thought it would be better to give it out before we reached 2021 so here it is.

You can just about read the winners’ names but it has joint winners Maureen & Brendan.

See the details by clicking on this link here

 

Nice sunny day, 24 players played 3 rounds and Jan & Jane won all 3 games with a points difference of 23 to just pip Clive and Kath on 3W  + 20.

In the picture above we’re showing our 2m distancing. Those close to each other are married. Everyone remained 2m apart all afternoon. We only used 6 of our 15 lanes so games were all 3m apart. Everyone used their own coche, boules, measurer. There were no scoreboards and results were input by 1 person using 1 pen to 1 scoresheet which no-one else used. No drawing of numbers from a bag.

As a result of this we think we can run a members monthly melee on 5th July. Distancing rules and not touching anything that isn’t yours will still apply. Summer melee with be 4 dates July to October and winter melee will be 5 rounds November to March. Best 3 scores will count.

 

 

 

Play has restarted recently & using distancing rules a singles league is running with 10 players.

As of Thursday June 11th members had played 32 matches in the Singles League. In the lead at the moment are Roy and Clive both on 7 wins but Roy has played all his 10 games whilst Clive has 3 more to play. There are still 23 matches to be contested so this situation will certainly change.  See the latest league table at this link here

We’re also planning a pairs event on Tuesday  June 23rd at 1:00pm. No need to book just turn up on the day. Choose your partner or take pot luck. We will only have 7 lanes available to play on so the maximum number of players will be 28.   We thought about calling it Covid Pairs or Social teams but decided in the end on Distancing Doubles.

New playing rules to cover doubles play are here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some play is possible following guidance from National Governing bodies. 2 members who are in the same family group can now play; 2 individuals who are not in the same family group can play as long as they socially distance. No doubles or triples can be played.

The secretary has emailed members with guidelines for playing and members can play at any time as “Club sessions” will not run for sometime and there will be no competitions for some time.

The clubhouse is closed. Please bring your own drinks if you want to.

For more information contact club secretary.

Running a competition and most people think of a knockout like the FA Cup but it’s not that easy. With the uncertainty of how many will turn up some work needs to be done. Here’s our rough guide to KOs.  It’s a knockout