Croquet Auckland Women’s GC Open Singles
Applications by Rod Templeman
The inaugural 2022/23 Croquet Auckland Women’s Open Singles, a ranking event, is scheduled to take place over two days at Takapuna Croquet Club, 8 Auburn Street, Takapuna, Auckland on Saturday/Sunday September 10th/11th. In the event of inclement weather or other mishap the event would be cancelled, there are no back up dates.
For the tournament to proceed a minimum of 6 entries are required, and because only 4 lawns will be used the maximum will be limited to 16.
Prospective entrants may now register their interest.
Those interested to enter are required first to register that interest to the Tourament Manager [email protected].
Applications received before midnight on August 20th will be listed the following day with priority determined by WCF ranking. If there are places remaining, players will be added to the list in order of application receipt, irrespective of ranking.
Allocation will take place on August 21st, and a waiting list will be offered should there be surplus applications.
The final closing date for applications is August 28th, the draw will appear on Croquet Scores shortly thereafter.
A note from the Tournament Manager.
The WCF ranking list is available to view online, try pasting this in your web browser:
http://rank.worldcroquet.org/gcrankdg/rank.php
By changing the parameters to NZ, Women Only, 0 games and 1000 points you will be able to see whether you currently have a WCF ranking.
The order of play will be determined according to the number of entries, but the intention is for entrants to play a round robin on day 1 followed by knockout blocks, continued on day 2. Games, which may be double banked, will essentially be untimed, but the Tournament Referee may apply a time limit should they consider the need to arise. Whether games will be 13 or 19 hoop will depend on the number of entries
The entry fee is $20 per player for the two days, payable by bank transfer to Croquet Auckland 12-3011-0816623-000 on confirmation of entry only (ref: surname & CA Womens O). Takapuna Croquet Club will charge an additional daily club house fee of $5 to cover the cost of tea/coffee/biscuits. Players should arrange to bring their own lunch, although the club is within walking distance of various food outlets within a shopping mall. Free parking is normally available close to the clubhouse on Friday afternoons and at weekends.
Dawson balls will be used, as will quadway hoops which will be set to the largest ball plus 1/16th of an inch with an upwards and downwards tolerance of 1/32nd of an inch
Expressions of interest must be emailed to the Tournament Manager, Rod Templeman [email protected] giving name (as per WCF ranking nomenclature if appropriate), current handicap, club, and mobile phone number.
Confirmed entrants may practise on the competition lawns on Friday September 9th between 14:00 and 16:00 without charge.
Play will take place daily from 08:30, please assemble by 08:15 on day 1 for an address by the Tournament Manger.
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