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The venue for the first ever Spain-Ireland Women’s GC match was the Villa Padierna Racquet club on the Costa del Sol, about 10k from Estepona. There were two excellent croquet lawns surrounded by tennis and padel courts, lots of palm trees and the sound of the waves breaking on the beach about 50 yards away.
The USA is hosting an international GC event open to women players of all standards. The event is the Women’s International Friendship Cup in October at the Chesapeake Bay Club in Virginia.
The exciting news is that women from eight different countries have expressed interest or have already made plans to compete.
Space is limited to 64 players and players of all levels are welcome to participate from Novice to Championship flight.
The Irish Golf Croquet Team to plan against Spain next week met together to have a coaching session with Andrew Johnston. We wish them all the very best in their first international match.
The Irish Golf Croquet team are in Nelson, New Zealand, for their participation in the World Golf Team Championships.
We wish them the best of luck in their games.
https://www.sporty.co.nz/gcworldteamsnelson2020/Home-1
Here is a picture of a Patsy Fitxgerald with the winnere's cup at this year's Irish GC Championship with team-mate Simon Williams looking on.
Photographs of the Golf Croquet Invitational held at Carrickmines, Dublin on the weekend of 7th-8th December 2019
The Irish team in this event, played in New Zealand in January, is:
Patsy Fitzgerald, Evan Newell, Robert O'Donoghue, Mark Stephens, Simon Williams (C).
New Zealand are the current champions, and Ireland will join teams from England, South Africa, Australia, Egypt, Sweden and the USA to try to depose them. The Irish team will also play a warm-up match against Australia.
The tournament website is: https://www.sporty.co.nz/gcworldteamsnelson2020
Carrickmines Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club will be hosting the annual Autumn Bowl end of season Association Croquet event on 12th and 13th October.
The event will begin on Saturday afternoon. Entries to Sandy Greig by Monday 7th please.. Depending on entries, the format will be 14 point games.
This is an Open Handicap event and entries are invited from all AC croquet players. Full details and contact information available here.
The Irish Open Golf Championship final was well worth the watching: five full games of World-class hitting, manoeuvring, dogged contention and sparkling invention between two in-form internationals, that put the rest of the play, and all previous finals, in the shade. In the last, Patsy acquired a lead after Mark clanged hoop six from straight in front, having ‘won’ it in a tremendous battle, and unfortunately rushed Patsy’s ball through hoop seven shortly afterwards! Patsy did not relax the pressure, and Mark’s rearguard fight came to an end at hoop eleven. Click Title to read Simon's full report.
Carrickmines was the venue for the 2019 test match between Ireland and Great Britain. In the history of this event, Ireland has only won once back in 2005. The visitors captained by David Maugham brought a strong team as per usual with all members of the team in the top 50 players in the world. But with the smaller 4 person team, Ireland was more confident of being competitive.
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