THOMPSON TROPHY
Margaret & Tommy Thompson Trophy: Rules of Competition
The Margaret & Tommy Thompson Trophy is an annual level play singles golf croquet competition open to all ordinary, life and junior members of the Club. The competition is conducted as set out in the “Australian Laws Book” of the Australian Croquet Association Inc., and taking into account the “General Competition Rules – Golf Croquet”.
The Thompson Trophy will be a non-handicap competition (i.e. “level play”). For this reason, the competition will be played in four grades determined by handicaps:
• A Grade is for handicaps -6 to 4
• B Grade is for handicaps 5-8
• C Grade is for handicaps 9 and over
• Novice is for handicaps 14 and over with no previous competition win
Each grade will play on separate days, with the winner of each competition to be named club champion for their Grade. The winner of A Grade will be the winner of the Thompson Trophy.
If in any year there are less than 6 entries in the A Grade, B Grade or C Grade competitions, then entries will be allowed from players in lower grades: higher handicap players may play up in a higher Grade i.e. a C Grade handicap player can play in the B Grade competition; however, lower handicap players cannot play down i.e. a B Grade handicap player cannot play down in a C Grade competition.
The dates of the competition will be set each year depending on the Club competition schedule.
Conditions of Play
• Refer to the “General Competition Rules – Golf Croquet”.
• The individual competitions will be level play using handicap cards.