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THE Phyllis Court A team cruised to victory against Blewbury A in their first Southern Open League match of the season last week but made harder work of it than the 6.5-1.5 scoreline suggests.
Blewbury should have been no match for the Henley based club with all four of Phyllis Court’s team out ranking their visitors on paper, however, with three of the four opening games all going to 7-6, early notice was given not to take the league’s weakest side lightly.
Chris Roberts led the line for the hosts with a comfortable 7-3, 7-4 victory against David Vincent and number two Roger Goldring recovered well from an initial scare to also win in straight games 7-6, 7-2 against Paul Wolff.
Record numbers sign up as new croquet season starts );
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The private members’ club has the largest croquet club in the country with 197 members. A strict pre-booking system is in place to control numbers on the greens at any time.
The club has also been taking guidance from the Croquet Association on safe playing during the pandemic.
Starting the playing season nearly four months into the year means that croquet is straight into its competitive programme both internally at Phyllis Court and on the national tournament circuit. As the deadline for entries to the club’s season-long knock-out competitions approaches, entries have smashed all previous records, even without any doubles events for the time being, with almost all members signing up to take part.