Fixtures 2024

Tuesday April 30th

Friendly match away at Chichester and Fishbourne

Tuesday May 14th

Friendly match home with Chichester and Fishbourne

Tuesday 21st May 

Friendly match away at Littlehampton

 Friday 7th June

Friendly match at home against West Wittering

Saturday 8th June

Team competition at Compton. 3+ handicap 3/5 in team

Wednesday 12th June

League match Sussex County A  At Home 10.00am

Wednesday 3rd July

Friendly match at home against Guildford and Godalming

Saturday/Sunday 13/14 July

Southern Challenge Southwick (level) Team event

Sunday 21st July

Centenary Cup at Littlehampton

Wednesday 24th July

League Match  against Rottingdean    Away

Wednesday July 31st 

Guildford and Godalming home league match

Sunday August 4th

Carnival team event Southwick (handicap)

Friday August 9th

League Match against West Worthing Away

Friday 16th August

Friendly match away at Rother Valley

Fixtures 2024

Friday 16th August      Friendly match away at Rother Valley

Lodsworth had a friendly match against Rother Valley last Friday. Team was Sandy West, Libby Driscoll, Paul Benzimra and myself. The afternoon was quite challenging as three of the matches started on -1. However, true to form Lodsworth won 5-3, so a huge thank you to my team for playing so well.  John West

Friday 9th August     League Match against West Worthing 

Today (Friday) we travelled to West Worthing for our last league match. All players played out of their skins with many games going to the golden hoop and we finished the season on a real high winning 7-2!

West Worthing were the 2023 national champions so an amazing result!!

Many thanks to Mike Wilson John West and Peter Hill for playing this season along with myself. 

Elaine

Sunday August 4th  Carnival team event Southwick (handicap)

Maybe entering the carnival at Southwick the day after the BBQ was not our brightest idea but after a slow start we managed to pick up a few wins but no silverware!
However Lodsworth hillbillies were victorious in the fancy dress so bottles of wine will arrive on Thursday! Elaine

Wednesday 31st July Home league match against Guildford and Godalming

Sadly we lost 5-4.  Very very close again!  

24th July League Match against Rottingdean

Today we played our second league match at Rottingdean which wins the prize for the most beautiful surroundings being situated in a walled garden open to the public!
All games were very close with every singles match going to the golden hoop but Lodsworth fought hard winning 5-4!
Elaine

21st July Centenary Cup at Littlehampton

Another excellent day's croquet for Lodsworth Croquet Club, coming second - and only half a point less than the winners! Mind you, there were three winning teams out of eight, each with a score of 8, but we were still just behind them with 7.5.  Great playing from our team of Peter Hill, Jo Huffener,  Hugh Brown, Frank Hill and John West. 

13/14 July  Southern Challenge Southwick (level) Team event 

Well this weekend Lodsworth played in the Southern challenge down at Southwick. This is a level tournament for B and C handicaps except they made a last minute change to allow 1 A player! Lodsworth fought hard for 5 wins and 2 losses finishing a very respectable 🥉 out of 8 teams. Compton won with a player off -1 and Rottingdean were second with a +1 player   
Team was Mike Wilson Elaine Wilson John West Peter Hill Jo Huffener and Richard Givan
Lawns were in fantastic condition as always so a great experience for everyone!
Elaine

Wed 3rd July Friendly match at home against Guildford and Godalming

Mike Wilson was the team captain and Peter Hill, Jean Farguson and Paul Benzimra joined him.  Lodsworth won 6-4!  

League Match Sussex County A     12 June 24

Lodsworth came out winners of the first league match of the season against Sussex A! We were playing advantage croquet and starting all our matches-1 or -2 but the team of Mike and Elaine Wilson John West and Peter Hill fought hard for every hoop and won the match 6-3. Onwards to the next match away to Rottingdean on Wednesday July 24th

Compton mini tournament Sat 8 June 2024

Lodsworth were invited to send a team to the Compton tournament where there were 5 other teams. Each round we played 1 doubles and 2 singles matches in level play!
After some closely fought games Lodsworth managed to come 2nd to one of the home teams so a great result!
The 5 lawns were immaculate and very very fast so it was a great experience for all of us. Thanks to John West Peter Hill Richard Givan Frank Hill and Monica Hill for joining me in this adventure

Friendly match home with Chichester and Fishbourne Tuesday May 14th

30th April 2024: Friendly match away at Chichester and Fishbourne 

Well we had fun today on one of the first sunny days for ages. However the results were not brilliant. Peter, Jo, Jean and myself travelled to Fishbourne and the overall score was 6-0 to Fishbourne. They turned out a strong team with handicaps from 2 to a debatable 12 🙄.  The lawns were slow, heavy and uneven. Jean needed to use golf style to get the length of the lawn but never lost her sense of humour. 

Despite the overall result lots of the games were close fought. 

Tea was good 😀.

Captain Wilson

Chichester & Fishbourne 15 August 2023

Mike and Elaine, Alistair Proctor and Hugh Brown won a very tight match by 5 games to 4, with the final game being won at the 13th hoop! This means that we go into our last League match against Sussex County on August 31st with a very good chance of being undefeated, a feat we have not achieved before. That's Alistair demonstrating his jump shot!
 

8th August Preston League

A wet, miserable day but Team Lodsworth won 6-3!  Congratulations to Tim Johnson, Hugh Brown, Elaine and Mike Wilson.

30th July 2023  SECF GC Teams 

The event was the South East Croquet Federations annual Team competion at Southwick, which this year was was billed as a Carnival (possibly to celebrate 20 years of the competition) so all the Teams were asked to dress up!  We took a team of five, Elaine, Mike, Richard, Tim and myself and Elaine had the idea of  going as The Lodsworth Morris Dancers. She brilliantly provided all the ribbons flowers and bells to kit us out. Although most other teams seemed to think we should have won (as did we!), we were pipped at the post by the Clan of Godhelm from Guildford and Godalming who had rather splendid Viking Helmets (but nothing else). In the competition itself we did not win despite the best efforts of Mike and Elaine ( both winning all their matches ) and Richard (who won 2 and drew one). It was all very enjoyable despite the rather drizzly and cold weather. Full results will be published later.

June 17/18th - SECF Southern Challenge

A wet bedraggled but happy Lodsworth team after the tournament at Southwick! 4th place with 8 wins. Winners had 9 wins so very close!!

Date

May 23rd

May 31st

June 5th

June 17/18th

June 28th

July 12th

July 23rd

July 30th

August 8th

August 15th

August 22nd

August 31st

September 8th

 

Day

Tuesday

Wednesday

Monday

Sat/Sunday

Wednesday

Wednesday

Sunday

Sunday

Tuesday

Tuesday

Tuesday

Thursday

Friday

Club

Littlehampton

West Wittering

West Chiltington League

SECF Southern Challenge

Southwick

Chichester

Littlehampton Centenary Cup

SECF GC Teams

Preston League

Chichester&Fishbourne League

Rother Valley

Sussex County League

Rother Valley Short Croquet

Location

Away

Away

Home

Away

Home

Home

Away 

Away

Home

Away

Home

Away

Away

Friendly match against Chichester and Fishbourne 12th July 2023 We lost 6-0 but our scores were pretty close in the end.


Croquet at Southwick

So how many men does it take to make a decision?
Alistair Proctor with Stephen Mulliner - former AC world champion, 5 times European GC champion, 7 times British GC champion and 3 times British AC champion.

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