Roger Buckley will be standing down as Chairman at the AGM on 21 November. Nominations for Chairman should be sent to the Secretary in writing by 18 September (address at top of Home Page)

Somerset won the First Division of the AC Inter Counties Championship and Dorset won the Second Division, with teams comprised of SWF players. See here for a full report.

The SWF Short Croquet competition was held at Nailsea on Sunday 11th April. The First Division was won by Trendlewood (Nailsea) and the Second Division by Kington Langley. See here for pictures of winning teams.

Click here to download a Word file on the rules for Time Limited Games

An Apology: When preparing the list for SWAN of SWF players who received CA Diplomas in 2009 I inadvertently omitted Ivor Meredith of Budleigh Salterton. Ivor's citation read "Ivor has been the Secretary of Budleigh Salterton Croquet Club for many years.  The club is a large one with many members and visitors, so the amount of work involved for him from day to day is considerable. Ivor keeps his finger on the pulse, and is soon aware of anything that needs to be known within the club; he is always willing to help out at short notice, if he can, in whatever way necessary. Ivor‘s devotion to the club has made an enormous contribution to its health, and consequently to croquet."

The Annual General Meeting was held on 22 November 2009 at Batch Country House Hotel, Lympsham, Nr. Weston-super-Mare BS24 0EX

Minutes now here

CONSTITUTION: The proposed changes to the constitution were carried with a couple of minor changes of wording which were proposed by David Kibble. The new constitution can now be seen here.         

5.   PROPOSAL B

   Association League Rules

   4.      ELIGIBILITY

   e.      Replace

“ Players with singles handicaps of 15 or below may play in the Federation League matches...........

With

“ Players with singles handicaps of 12 or below may play in the Federation League matches. In addition, teams may field one player whose singles handicap is 13 or over, but that player must play off 12”

            Motion Defeated.

PROPOSAL C

   Association League Rules

   Rule 12e.     ......... before “ during the season” insert “ in the mini block”

   Motion Carried.

PROPOSAL D

   The Committee propose to introduce a GOLF CROQUET LEVEL PLAY LEAGUE for the coming season.

   Motion carried, but only seven clubs had expressed an interest, and due to the travelling distances involved with a single block it was agreed that the League

   Secretary would consider if it was a viable proposition for 2010

PROPOSAL E  Proposal from Dyffryn CC regarding the current rules in the Golf Croquet league.

     The current rule is:

     5. TIME LIMITS

          a. Games will be given a time limit of 45 minutes each.

          Double-banked games will be given a time limit of 50 minutes each.

     Dyffryn propose to change this to:

     5. TIME LIMITS

a. Games will be given a time limit of 45 minutes each.  If the double-banked games causes the other match to stop, then clock in that game shall be stopped until it can proceed.

    Motion Carried.

Revised rules for Association and Golf Leagues can be downloaded in PDF and printed