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Gauteng 2022 Provincial GC Tournament

The Gauteng Provincial Golf Croquet Tournament took place at Country Club Johannesburg from 19-21 March. Although the entries were a bit lower than usual, the quality of play was excellent with some very exciting moments in the finals.  The courts were in great condition.

Victor Dladla won the Open Singles title for the 9th time since the tournament’s inception in 2007.  Victor also won the Handicap Singles trophy.

In the Open Doubles, the father and son team of Mike and Marc Corcoran from Marks Park retained the trophy for the third year running.

Keeping it in the family again, brother and sister Anne Weiss and Mike Rivett-Carnac of CCJ won the handicap doubles trophy.

The Higher Handicap Singles (6 and above) Trophy was won by Dougie Ramage of Marks Park and Dougie was also awarded the inaugural Vincent Atterbury Memorial Trophy for the most improved golf croquet player in Gauteng.

All in all, an excellent weekend played in mostly fair weather, although rainwear had to be produced for the final day.

Some of the eager competitors.

Gauteng’s most improved GC player – Dougie Ramage receiving his trophy from Jolene Atterbury.

The Rainbow Trophy

……less than 24 hours to go and the inaugural Rainbow Trophy will begin……

Looking forward to a week of fabulous top class GC competition play being held at Somerset West, guarded by the beautiful Helderberg mountain and sponsored by Bonnievale wines…

Not much time left now before the “big guns” get to do what they do best at The Rainbow Trophy, with a sponsorship from Bonnievale wines, starting on Saturday 5 March 2022 at SWCC. The scores will be updated on croquetscores.com for those who aren’t able to come and spectate – the link is  https://croquetscores.com/2022/gc/the-rainbow-trophy

Hosted at Somerset West CC from the 5th to 11th March under the auspices of SACA, the Rainbow Trophy promises to provide some exciting competitive GC. The inaugural event of Open Doubles and Open Singles has attracted some excitement from both overseas and locally. 

Reg Bamford, Charles Barlow, Victor Dladla, Neil McHardy, William Louw, Lionel Tibble, David Wise and Chris Roberts to mention a few of the competitors. 

Ten top class doubles pairs will be taking each other on for the first two days of the Rainbow Trophy….Bamford/Barlow, Louw/Hanekom, Tibble/Wise, Roberts/Colman, Dladla/Makhubo, Boyd/Tomes, Turnbull/Malenga, Field/Davies, Moore/Johnson and Dreyer/Short.