AUTUMN 2024
The (Brunswick Kew) team won the 2023 Spring Division 4 Pennant and are currently playing in the 2024 Autumn Pennant along with a Brunswick Kew team in Division 3.
AUTUMN
Three Kew Golf Croquet teams are competing in the Autumn Challenge with two Level Play teams in Division Two and one Advantage Play team.
MARCH 2024
The Kew Gateball team captained by Philip Brown came second in the Victorian State Gateball Championship with a team from NSW led by John Park winning the competition. Alec Maclachlan (captain) and Maxine Maclachlan won the Victorian John Bradley Doubles Championship. This is not the first time the mother/son partnership has won the Doubles Competition. Well done to our Kew teams.
SEPTEMBER 2023
Congratulations to Kew White, winners of the Australian Gateball Championships Team event. Kew were the defending champions and retained the title. Rockhampton were runners up, in the game that ended in a penalty shoot out.
DECEMBER 2023
A mixed team led by Kew Croquet's Philip Brown won the South Australian Gateball Championship. The team consisted of Kew's Philip Brown, Maxine Maclachlan and David Pryor along with Tim Stagg and Jasmine Palmer from Brunswick Mallet Sports Club, Elaine Coverdale from Essendon and Cheryl O'Dwyer from Warrnambool. Elaine, Jasmine and Tim are Associate Members at Kew.
APRIL 2024
The second Lightning Tournament was held at the Kew Croquet Club in April 2024. Initiated by Paul Roast, this friendly round robin Club tournament is a Pot Luck event with partners drawn at random to compete against the previous winning pair. In this second event, Clare Newton and David Pryor successfully defended their title despite a nail-biting golden hoop and a tightly fought grand final against Philip Brown and John Watts.
19 MARCH, 2023
The coveted Bear Cup is an annual fun tournament between the EMCA clubs: Kew, Ivanhoe, Lilydale, MCC, Monash, and Ringwood. The clubs play for a magnificent little stuffed bear in a silver cup. This year's event was held at Lilydale and was won convincingly by a crew of four from Kew Croquet Club - Kerry Cannard, Jill Johnstone, Clare Newton and David Pryor. Games included 'Tennis Croquet', 'Ten Pin Croquet' 'In-off Croquet' and 'Lawn Croquet Bowls'
in December 2022, it was decided that the Shield would trial the new Advantage version of Handicap play in the Spring season of 2023. Please see the attached pdf link below for more information. It is important to practise the handicapping system to become familiar with it. For those interested in reading more about the Advantage Handicap system, please visit the World Croquet Federation website: https://worldcroquet.org/advantagegc/
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