2021 Competition Finals
The annual Club Competition Finals were held over the weekend of the 10th,11th and 12th September. It was great to see so much support on each of the days by those of us who didn’t quite make it as far as the finals and were checking out the competition for next year.
Across the 3 days there were 12 finals. The weather was kind to us on every day and the standard of bowling was extremely high with a number of nail-biting finishes, but special mention must go to Robin Hicks and John Walker in The Taylor Cup. This is a first to 21 shots competition and the score reached 20 shots each. Ian managed to capture the scoreboard :-
So on to the final end and the final head and in the end it finished looking like this :-
with John Walker scoring 2 shots and claiming the victory.
Robin Hicks had 3 finals to play over the weekend across the three days. He warmed up on Friday evening losing in the Michael Jones Cup, played John Walker in the Taylor Cup on Saturday which we’ve just read about, losing in the last end, but finally won a nail biter in the Jubilee Handicap 22-19 on Sunday against Adrian Wilcox, the match neck and neck right to the end.
Other particularly close games were the Ladies Two Wood Cup that finished 16-14 with Marion finally beating Frances on the last end and the Josey Cup Married Pairs when the Ashfields won 17-16, going into the final end 1 shot down, this one providing an exciting finale to the Friday night matches.
There are pictures in the gallery here of all the winners plus some other photos taken over the 3 days.(Note - click on an image to expand it)
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The full list of winners is :-
Ford Cup Heather Hallchurch & Marion Keal
Victory Pairs Graham Watson & Mike Sawyer
Josey Cup Ann & John Ashfield
Michael Jones Cup Ian Rutherford
Honour Cup Barbara Waters
Two Wood Cop Marion Keal
Taylor Cup John Walker
Walker Cup Chris Shannon
Pomeroy Cup Heather Hallchurch
Jubilee Handicap Robin Hicks
Warwick Cup Deirdre Page & Ray Plested
Coronation Cup Ian Rutherford
Many thanks to everyone who helped make these competitions a success especially those who ran the bar and the green team for providing a brilliant playing surface.
Also thanks to Geoff Roynon, Irena Watson and Ian Rutherford for the photos.
Here’s looking forward to next year.
Adrian Wilcox
Competitions Secretary.
19th September 2021
