11th WCF Golf Croquet World Championship

Hi all. I will attempt to do a bit of commentary from sunny Whakatane. I'm a bit limited as I only have my phone and typing is slow going.

Lawns are looking in great condition, perhaps a little slower this morning than ideal but I expect them to quicken during g the day

Alrighty I've upgraded to a tablet and WiFi, should make things easier

Current games are Patsy v qualifier and local club president Steve clarke, Virginia arney vs Mike Crashley, Brian bullen vs salah hassan and bob Jackson vs hamy erian

I'm positioned to watch the Jacko, hamy game as well as Steve v patsy

Hamy currently 3-0 ahead and Steve patsy 1 all

Hamy has a ball yard in front of 4, jacko misses, should be 4-0

Nope, blobs the hoop, not sure if its runnable but looks like it might have fallen out to the side

Patsy, runs 3 off the south boundary, Steve replies with a good positional shot wired from the boundary ball

Looks like hamy could run that, 4-0

Bpb takes yard position at 5, hamy puts a ball in, now shooting from 4

Half balls it, bob has 10 harder at red

Bounces off hoop leg, hamy has 2 foot 15 degree hoop

Slams at it and rejects back past him

Meanwhile Steve has levelled it up at 2 all

Bob only quarter balls the clearance on red, hamy hits the return

Hamy under hits his 4 yard positional shot, not sure if that will run, looks to be struggling with the lack of pace at this stage

Bob clears yellow into CNR 1, with blue 2 foot straight position. Hamy middle balls the return, good shooting

Hamy runs 5 3 yards past 6. Bob takes wired position, hamy overruns 6, jacko jawses from down by 5

Hamy misses the 4 or so harder at the ball in the hoop, bob rush peels, 5-1

Hamy first ball to 7, short, blue follows it in, also shirt but might be able to jaws, shooting at yellow with black, middle balls but ends up behind hoop

Hamy lags back in, might be blocking partner, nope bob clears red

Difficult position here for bod, red and yellow both run but he only has a clearance to short boundary

Hamy clears to down by hoop , bob shooting g with blue at red but hits the back of the hoopand stays tbere

Hamy just makes the hoop, rushing blue up to 8, not really any need to jump when you are 6-1 ahead

Meanwhile patsy has gone 4-2 ahead

My mistake, 3 all

Hamy shoots at 8 to win, hits the middle of it but gets a René tion out, Atkins hoops are doing g the job so far

I'm going go go che k the other scores

Patsy 4-3

Crashley 3-2, with control at 6

Hamy has won the first and they are onto game 2

Scoreboard. Numbers are too small to read cross court, I'm told they are getting g bigger ones soon

Hoops have been great so far, very solid, credit to the Whakatane club for doing an ex elkent job with them

Hamy gas generated first xhit at hoop 1 after some good hitting, creams the 2 yarxer down to 2, not runnable though

Steve makes a lovely jump at 10, patsy fails to get position at 11

Hamy runs 4 yard hoop 2 to go 2-0 up

Steve clears at 11 to give himself a 4 harder at 11. He's 6-4 ahead so this is game hoop, fails it off the outside wire though

Wind is starting to pick up a bit,hopefully its stays as a breeze

Hamy with a other 3 harder at 3, slightly angled this time, makes no difference and runs it to the PSG

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Patsy gets a big reje tion out of 11, after a bit of interaction Steve runs a 2 harder for the first game. Round of applause for the local

Crowd here is maybe 25, mostly members

Lawns maybe speeding up a touch as both first balls in game 2 are 3 yards long

Hamy runs another 4 harder at4 to go 4-0 aheaf

He's looking very dangerous indeed,taking on a 5 harder at 5

Nope, just lags in with red, yellow is in control of blue, black centre balls cross court and holds on the hoop, great shot bob

Hamy tops his clearance and takes his ball off the court, only clearing by 3 yards, poor return shot from bob though gives control back to hamy

Taking g on an 8 yard 25 degree hoop, shots gently but bounces of inside wire to non runnable position

Hamy jawses 5 with red, black can clear though

Patsy is 2-0 ahead, sorry for lack of updates on the others, WiFi doesn't go that far down and I can't read the scoreboards from here

Hamy 5-0

Has control at 6 as well

I'm going to have to leave it there and get ready for my match, battery is about dead too, I'll hopefully be back later for some more updates