Woking Croquet

30/08/2026

30/08/2026

Woking held a GC C and D Level tournament alongside each other on Friday 28th August to enable players to obtain D grades.

The forecast was not good with thundery showers due throughout the day. However, we were very lucky with the weather only having to exit the lawns once.

We had 6 players in each of the C and D level so had two all play all tournaments.

It was really encouraging to have a number of juniors (18 and under) competing. The “C" had two juniors and the “D” had three juniors all competing against the more mature players.

Because each player had 5 matches there was no time restriction so each match went to completion, first to seven.

In the D Level Hanna, a junior player from Bath, and Barry Maunders from Woking (who was playing in his first tournament) both went into the final round with 4 wins each. Therefore this match was going to be the decider. Barry eventually won a very close game 7-5 .

The C level was also closely contested with the result being decided on net hoops as both contenders each had 4 wins. Christopher Lavender (Woking) was declared the winner with yet another junior, Mark (Woking) as runner up.

Winners and Runner-ups were presented with trophies and engraved glasses.

The results are on croquetscores.com

19/07/2026

Youth Croquet End of Season Competition
For ages 18 and Under

At Cheltenham Croquet Club
Old Bath Road
Cheltenham GL53 7DF

Sunday 27th September 2026
10am-5pm


Croquet England is running a one day Youth Croquet End of Season Competition.
All young players 18 and under are invited to Cheltenham Croquet Club to, compete, play and have fun.

Our aim would be to get as many young players to come and play as possible this would include beginners just starting out, young players with promise and highly experienced 18 and under players.

Food will be provided “foc" for the youth and we would welcome contributions from the adults accompanying them.


Who is invited?
Clubs and schools are invited to nominate any player under 11 through to 18 and under to come to the event regardless of their current skill level or experience.

Please pass this information with the invite to all the Youth you coach……if you are at a school please do before the end of term if possible.

Please put this date into your diary and register providing the following information to Sara Anderson who will be organising the day

[email protected] 07973367174…

Name
Age
Handicap (if have one)
Club/School
Dietery Requirements

If you would like to discuss this event or would like more information please contact Sara Anderson

Let’s make it an awesome end of season celebration !

12/06/2026

Woking GC D Level Tournament. 12th June 2026

The day started with a quick panic as one of the players got the wrong day for the tournament and didn’t show.
Fortunately the elder sister of Fifi one of Woking’s Junior players had kept her whites in the car just in case and was delighted to step in.

So Ana stood in at no notice helping out the manager Sara by ensuring all the players of both blocks got a minimum of 5 matches each.

Much to everyone's relief the rain stayed away and instead we had a warm breeze and by the end of the day we were basked in lovely sunshine.

This tournament was the first D Level held at Woking and a great success.

Help and advice was given to help 8 out of the 12 players with completing their handicap cards for level as it was their first Tournament.

The standard of play was very good and really encouraging to see players calling for a ref for possible iffy shots and helping each other out with watching the sequence of balls.

Maureen Ward was the only player to win all her block matches and was the first player to qualify for the semi final. Ana narrowly pipped Felicity Grubb to the 2nd place in the same block as she had higher net hoops.

Block B was also very close with the top two players each having 4 wins. This time Richard Law took the first position with higher net hoops followed closely by Jane Drury.

It was lovely seeing two sisters compete and as luck would have it they were not in the same block…..between the two of them they helped lower the average age but quite a bit 😀

Both semi finals were strongly contested by all 4 players.

Jane finished first beating Maureen in the semi followed later by Ana who beat Richard to both earn their places in the final.

Maureen and Richard went straight to play for third and fourth place.
Maureen took the third place with a 7-4 win.

Then Jane and Ana started the final….with a good audience of at least 12 people.

Ana got off to a good start running the first two hoops , Jane quickly caught up then is was a fight for every hoop with lots of clearing balls.

Ana with youth on her side didn’t seem at all phased with playing in a final and there seemed to be no nerves although she said she was bricking it.

We spectators and coaches alike from Woking all felt her nerves instead.🤪

Ana was stoic and even when Jane kept clearing balls and the hoops each became a long fight between them she never seemed disheartened of phased by it.
May be she should play poker if she can hide all her feeling and nerves that well.

Ana went on to beat Jane 7-4 and was delighted and very excited….and everyone shared her delight.

Jane and Felicity with all their wins also both earned a handicap reduction from 10 to 9 👏👏

11/06/2026

Woking GC C Level Tournament.

We had 11 players as sadly we had a w/d the night before from a nasty injury.

Undeterred and unable to locate another player at short notice we continued.

This was the first level play tournament for three of the players.

One block had 6 players the other 5 so to enable everyone to have at least 5 games we had extra games that block A played a person in block B which although counted as a win or loss was not part of the actual tournament results.

The players all braved the rain…..which thankfully stopped after lunch.

It was lovely having two younger players Ana and Leonard in their first level play tournament and they both did well each winning 2 matches in their respective blocks with Leonard also winning one of the Xtra matches.

The winner was Susan Bellew who played amazingly well in the Final beating Derek Code 7-2 .(both also had a handicap reduction from 8 to 7) Liz Swinton came third in a very close battle against Alan Mundy 7-6.

All the matches were played with good sportsmanship and everyone stayed for the presentation as you can see in the photos.