ANDY KENYON WINS 44th NOVICES' TOURNAMENT, Saturday 17th September



One of the nicest trophies that is played for at Bowdon is the Fotiadi Novices' Silver Challenge Bowl. On Saturday, six of our novices competed for this trophy in an all-play-all competition of short croquet, each playing 5 games in total, lasting 1 hour.

Andy Kenyon was the outright winner, winning all of his games - not only that but he managed to peg out in 3 of them (pegging out one ball in the other two).   Only one other player managed to finish a game with a peg out and that was Sue Lucas and she had 2 wins; Neil Thompson was the runner-up with 4 wins.

The weather was fairly kind to the players, starting off bright but clouding up later. There were only a few short showers but this did not deter them. The hardest problem for them was the pace of the lawns, often resulting in hoop approaches being overrun. Their hoop running and roquet shots were of a high standard overall and they soon realised it was better to go second if they won the toss.

Martin Granger Brown presented the prizes and gave a word of advice for the players that would help to improve their play in future: instead of positioning their ball in front of the hoop ready to run it, they should go to the furtherest ball and tidy up the break before returning to make the hoop for the same bisque that they were prepared to invest. Martin also informed Andy that his handicap would be 22 from now on!

A good day as had by all and special thanks were given to Lorna Frost for all her organisation and running of the tournament.

Andy Kenyon	Neil Thompson	Chris Evans
Sue Lucas	Jo Kenyon	Douglas Burrington
Competitiors	Spectators watching prize giving