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NELSON BAY CROQUET CLUB

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Nelson Bay Croquet Club has been established for 28 years. It is located in the Blue Water Paradise of Port Stephens, just north of Newcastle, NSW. Membership is open to all who are interested in the game, and visitors are warmly welcomed.

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Members play all the three internationally recognised forms of Croquet – Golf, Ricochet and Association. The Club plays both social and competitive games five days each week on four professionally maintained full sized courts and has a small clubhouse on-site. We also have an active program of social events.

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Club's Responsible Consumption of Alcohol Policy
FORTHCOMING EVENTS

CLUB PATRON VISIT

 

Meryl Swanson MP, Federal Member for Paterson, will join a plying session on Tuesday October 1 at 10:00am for an hour. Please come along and welcome our patron.

CLUB COMPETITIONS 2024

 

The dates of the 2024 intra-club competitions are as follows (all competitions played on Sundays):

Ricochet Knockout

Thompson Trophy Division 1

Blowes Shield

President's Cup

July / August

6th October

20th October

3rd November

CNSW STATE PENNANTS 2024 - HOME MATCHES

 

The Club will field 2 x Division 2 and 1 x Division 3 teams in 2024. The home matches I n the Hunter Region Qualifying Tournament are as follows:

Division 2 Fingal

Thursday 3rd October vs Toronto, 1:00pm

Thursday 7th November vs Newcastle National Park, 1:00pm

[Sunday 10th Nov ember vs NB Shoal, 10:00am]

Division 2 Shoal

Monday 30th September vs Pelican, 1:00pm

Sunday 10th November vs NB Fingal, 10:00am

Division 3

Thursday 15th August vs Newcastle National Park, 1:00pm

Monday 2nd September vs EDSACC, 11:00am

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CHRISTMAS BUSH COMPETITION 2024

 

The Club will host the 3rd Christmas Bush competition, a Golf Croquet Open Doubles Tournament, from Friday 15th November to Monday 18th November 2024.

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Further details 

LATEST NEWS

MERYL SWANSON PATRON

Tuesday 1st October 2024

The Club’s Patron, Meryl Swanson Member of Parliament for the seat of Paterson in the Federal House of Representatives, visited the Club on Tuesday 1st October 2024. She was welcomed by President David Smith and then played a few hoops of croquet before sharing morning tea with members.

 

Meryl indicated that it was an honour to be Patron of such an active Club and celebrated that the sun had returned for her first ever game of croquet. She also congratulated the Club on being selected, together with other Hunter croquet clubs, to host a series of Australian Championships in 2015. Finally, she thanked the Club for the warm welcome and for putting on a beautiful morning tea.

 

Nelson Bay, together with EDSACC, Maitland, Newcastle National Park, Pelican and Toronto croquet clubs, will host the Australian Golf Croquet Gold Medal (starting 3rd September 2025, the Australian Golf Croquet Men’s and Women’s Championship (starting 6th September 2025) and the Interstate Series (ISS, 10th to 15th September 2025).​

Great weather and a fun day

Meryl celebrates running a hoop

Meryl discusses croquet with Trevor Black

COME-AND-TRY DAYS

Sunday 22nd September 2024

Wednesday 18th September 2024

On Wednesday 18th September 11 participants attended a Come-and-Try event organised for the Tomaree Hospital Auxiliary. On Sunday 22nd September 36 participants attended a Come-and-Try day for the general public.

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Both were hugely successful with 12 participants already booked for further introductory lessons.

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A big thank you to Jane Scorer for organising these events and to all the members who assisted by spreading the word, manning the table at the shopping centre, plus cooking-up a storm and helping out at the events themselves. The success of these events was always going to be dependent on the help from members and a significant number responded magnificently.

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Another success for the Club.

Trevor Black assists one of the participants

The courts look a picture

Fun and action at the events

TAREE ON MANNING GOLF CROQUET

Tuesday 17th - Friday 20th September 2024

32 players from around NSW travelled to Mid-North Coast area of NSW for the Taree on Manning GC tournament. Nelson Bay members Peter & Sherry Gordon, Karen Lilly, Rod & Brenda-Lee Peet and Rae Uptin competed in the 4-day tournament.

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The players were seeded into 4 blocks for singles play and 2 blocks for doubles play, each played as a separate competition. Rod Peet finished runner-up in the Block C singles winning 4 of 6 games and Sherry Gordon finished runner-up in the Block D singles winning 6 of 7 games but placed 2nd on hoop count-back.

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A well run successful tournament with more success for the Club.

Action from Taree on Manning

Sherry receives her runner-up award

Picturesque Taree Croquet Club

SPRING GC SINGLES

Sunday 15th September 2024

The Spring GC Singles were played in rain, hail, strong winds and occasional sunshine. Fifteen intrepid members contested the tournament which was played in 3 blocks of 5 players, seeded on handicap with the lowest handicap players in Block A and the highest handicap players in Block C. 

 

The atrocious weather made for very challenging conditions but the dedication of the players meant all the games were completed and all the players stayed until the end of the day. The block winners and runners-up were:

Block A:     Frank Orton 1st with 3 wins (+10 hoops) and Greg Long 2nd with 3 wins                      (+4 hoops)

Block B:     Jane Scorer 1st with 3 wins (+13 hoops) and Bruce Chapman 2nd with 3                    wins (+8 hoops)

Block C:     Barbara Burgess 1st with 4 wins and Julia Harrison 2nd with 3 wins

 

Congratulations to all the hardy players who braved the conditions and also to Peter Gordon, Trevor Black and Rae Uptin for organising the play, Les Guzowski for preparing the courts and Ralph Harrison for refereeing.

Block Winners and Runners-up

Play in atrocious conditions

MAITLAND UNDER LIGHTS

Saturday 7th September 2024

Jane Scorer and Greg Long finished runners-up in Block B of the September Maitland Under Lights tournament. Alistair Torrance / Tony Hammond (Newcastle National Park) won the block.

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The tournament also included a series of 'jump shot' prizes and Jane won two prizes of $20 each - well done!!

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Another great night under the lights at Maitland and a success for the Club.

Jane and Greg celebrate their success

PORT MACQUARIE GOLF CROQUET CARNIVAL

Tuesday 3rd - Saturday 6th September 2024

24 players from around NSW travelled to Port Macquarie for the annual GC carnival. Liz Friend, Brenda-Lee Peet and Rod Peet entered from Nelson Bay. Liz and Rod entered both the singles and doubles with Brenda-Lee only contesting the singles.

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The singles were played as a double round-robin of 6 players in each of 4 blocks. Liz finished 3rd in Block A with 6 wins from 10 games while Brenda-Lee won Block B with 8 wins from 10 games.

Brenda-Lee (centre) awarded winner Block B

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