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2020 GC WTC entry fee payment

Entry fees

Entry fees of £336 per team are due by midnight on Sunday, 3 November 2019.  Payment will be accepted by bank transfer or by PayPal.

Bank transfer

If you have a UK bank account or can transfer money into a UK bank account without significant charges, please pay the entry fee by bank transfer to the WCF bank account below.  In the “reference” or “remark” field, please put your name so it is clear to whom the entry fee relates.

 

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2020 ACWC entry fee procedure

2020 Association Croquet World Championship

Entry fees

Players are encouraged to pay their entry fee of £108 as soon as possible and in any event by midnight on Friday, 25 October 2019.  Payment will be accepted by bank transfer or by PayPal.

Bank transfer

If you have a UK bank account or can transfer money into a UK bank account without significant charges, please pay the entry fee by bank transfer to the WCF bank account below.  In the “reference” or “remark” field, please put your name so it is clear to whom the entry fee relates.

PayPal

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Number of entrants

2020 ACWC – entry update published

2020 ASSOCIATION CROQUET WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

 

LIST OF COMPETITORS

Following the passing of the Closing Date on 22 September 2019, 20 Membership Places were taken up and one Ranking Place withdrawal had occurred.  One Wild Card place has been awarded and four Qualifying Places have been reserved.  Accordingly, 52 Ranking Places, one Wild Card Place and 20 Membership Places have been awarded to the players listed here.

REPLACEMENT RANKING LIST

The Replacement Ranking List (“RRL”) is now published and may be found here.   Replacement Ranking Places have been offered to the top three players on the list.

2020 GC WTC Tier 2 entry fee payment

Entry fees

Entry fees of £288 per team are due by midnight on Thursday, 30th September 2021. Payment will be accepted by bank transfer (preferred) or by PayPal.

Bank transfer

If you have a UK bank account or can transfer money into a UK bank account without significant charges, please pay the entry fee by bank transfer to the WCF bank account as detailed on your invoice.  In the “reference” or “remark” field, please put your name so it is clear to whom the entry fee relates.

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2020 Golf Croquet World Team Championship Tier 1

2020 Golf Croquet World Team Championship

Tier 1 of the Golf Croquet World Team Championship will be held from Monday 6 to Sunday 12 January 2020 at the Nelson-Hinemoa Croquet Club in Nelson, South Island, New Zealand.

Eight teams will compete for the Openshaw Shield, representing:

Australia, Egypt, England, Ireland, New Zealand (defending champion), South Africa, Sweden and the United States

The eight teams will be divided into two seeded blocks of four teams.

The event website may be found here.

The players selected may be found here.

The team seedings may be found here.

General

The contest will consist of a three day Block Stage from 6 to 8 January and a four day Knock Out Stage and Consolation Stage from 9 to 12 January.

All singles and doubles matches will consist of best-of-three 13 point games without time limits or double banking in the absence of emergencies.

Block Stage

Each will play a six match Test Match against each of the other teams in their block.  Each Test Match will consist of four singles matches and two doubles matches.  Each match 

A team will receive two points for a Test Match victory and one point for a draw.  The teams will be ranked in descending order of points won.  A play-off procedure will apply to resolve ties for first or second place.

The top two in each block will proceed to the Knock Out Stage.  The bottom two will proceed to the Consolation Stage.

Knock Out Stage

The winner of each block will play the second-placed team in the other block.

The semi-finals and final will consist of 13 match Test Matches played over two days.

The third-place play-off will consist of a 9 match Test Match.

Consolation Stage

On days 4 and 5 (9 and 10 January), the four teams will play six match Test Matches against the third and fourth placed teams from the other block.  The results of these matches will be amalgamated with the result of each team's match against the other team it met in the Block Stage to rank the teams from 1 to 4.

On days 6 and 7, Teams 1 and 2 will contest the 5th/6th play-off and Teams 3 and 4 will contest the 7th/8th play-off.  These Test Matches will each consist of nine matches,

 

 

 

 

2020 ACWC – list of competitors

2020 Association Croquet World Championship

As at 7 February 2020, the list of competitors is as follows:

RANKING PLACES  
1   Trevor Bassett AUS
2   Ian Bassett AUS
3   Kevin Beard AUS
4   Ian Dumergue AUS
5   Stephen Forster AUS
6   Simon Hockey AUS
7   Alan Honey AUS
8   Callum Hyland AUS
9   Peter Landrebe AUS
10   Dave Luxmoore AUS
11   Dwayne McCormick AUS
12   Jeff Newcombe AUS
13   Jim Nicholls AUS
14   Peter Ross AUS
15   Ted Salter AUS
16   Alan Sands AUS
17   Alison Sharpe AUS
18   Alan Walsh AUS
19   Simon Watkins AUS
20   Les Watson AUS
21   Edward Wilson AUS
22   Brian Cumming CAN
23   Mark Avery ENG
24   James Death ENG
25   Harry Fisher ENG
26   James Galpin ENG
27   Alain Giraud ENG
28   Richard M Smith ENG
29   David Maugham ENG
30   Stephen Mulliner ENG
31   Andy Myers ENG
32   Dominic Nunns ENG
33   Samir Patel ENG
34   Pete Trimmer ENG
35   Robert Wilkinson ENG
36   Jose Riva ESP
37   Greg Bryant NZL
38   Dennis Bulloch NZL
39   Paddy Chapman NZL
40   John Christie NZL
41   Jenny Clarke NZL
42   Aiken Hakes NZL
43   Chris Shilling NZL
44   Harps Tahurangi NZL
45   Felix Webby NZL
46   Duncan Reeve SCO
47   Sherif Abdelwahab USA
48   Jim Bast USA
49   Matthew Essick USA
50   Stuart Lawrence USA
51   Ben Rothman USA
52   Ian Burridge WAL
53   Reg Bamford ZAF
       
WILD CARD PLACE  
1   Logan McCorkindale NZL
       
MEMBERSHIP PLACES  
1   Murray Baum  AUS
2   Kenn Boal AUS
3   Robert Elliott  AUS
4   Malcolm Fletcher AUS
5   Robert Fletcher AUS
6   Rosemary Landrebe AUS
7   Tim Murphy AUS
8   Brigitte Westaway CAN
9   Peter Westaway CAN
10   Eugene Chang ENG
11   Chris O’Byrne ENG
12   Shoichi Nakamura JPN
13   Andrejs Savinovs LVA
14   Nelson Morrow NZL
15   Michael Wright NZL
16   Bill Hadden SCO
17   Stephen Morgan USA
18   Simon Jenkins USA
19   Gareth Denyer WAL

Ben Rothman is the new Golf Croquet World Champion

Southwick, 4 August 2019

Ben Rothman (USA) defeated Mohamed Karem (EGY) 7-5, 2-7, 3-7, 7-6, 7-5 in a six-hour final to become the first American to win a WCF world championship.

At one point, Rothman was 3-6 down in game 4 and Mohamed Karem seemed to be well set for a decisive victory.  However, Rothamn fought back to 6-6.  Karem took good position at hoop 13 with his first ball but Rothman cleared it at the second attempt.  Karem had two chances to take the game and title with a 7 yard hoop shot and a 7 yard jump but neither were successful.  In game 5, Rothman established an early but narrow lead and never relinquished it.

In the semi-finals, Karem played brilliantly to defeat the formidable Hamy Erian (EGY) by 7-5, 7-4, 6-7, 7-3 while Rothman went 2-0 down to 23-year old Josh Freeth (NZL), the 2015 Under 21 GC World Champion, before recovering to win 2-7, 3-7, 7-3, 7-5, 7-5.

Edmund Fordyce wins the 2019 Under 21 GC World Championship

Nottingham, 24 July 2019

Edmund Fordyce (NZL) lost the first two games of the 2019 Under 21 GCWC final to James Galpin (ENG) but fought back to take the next three games to become the 2019 Under 21 Golf Croquet World Champion.  The game scores were 4-7, 5-7, 7-5, 7-5, 7-5.

In the 3rd place play-off, Yasser Saeed (EGY) beat Euan Burridge (ENG) 10-5.