In past years, Bath’s Short Lawns Croquet tournaments were held as season-long events and then, more recently, on just one day on a convivial date in the summer with the days long and warm. The 5-round tournaments would start at 09.30 and would go on until 5.30 or later, depending on the need to establish

The Bath GC Tournament was held 26th/27th September, which might well have been the last really sunny weekend of the 2020 Summer season. 24 people applied to play and so we invited the 12 higher handicappers (HC10 or more) to play on the Saturday, while the 12 people with handicaps below 10 played on the

Tony Jackson and Richard Jelly represented the Bath Club on a hot Indian Summer day on the fast but surprisingly imperfect lawns of Surbiton Croquet Club. Our Club had held one of twenty-two heats totalling 214 players. On the day twenty-four players with handicaps ranging from -5 to 20 played 8 matches each, the finalists

We were blessed with glorious weather for the GC and the AC Finals Day, held on Lawn 1, and watched in the late summer sunshine by about a dozen club members from a wide range of vantage points around the lawn, carefully socially distanced. Tony Curson and Clare Fletcher, our GC League finalists, opened proceedings