Second All Mountain Golf Croquet Tournament

Just in case any of you missed this email from Don Molitor, here it is again preserved in the blog. I think it sums up the All Mountain Golf Croquet Tournament event beautifully. Thank you Don for all of your work in making the Interclub Challenges such a success; we appreciate your work!

September 8, 2011

CroquetNuts All;

Congratulations!!! You all are winners.

Today we participated in the Second All Mountain Golf Croquet Tournament, held this year at the beautiful grounds and lawns of Chattooga CC. The participating clubs included Highlands, Burlingame, Chattooga and Lake Toxaway PLUS for the first time Cedar Creek and Trillium for a total of six clubs. Next year we may have an additional two clubs.

This out-bursting of interest [and enjoyment] in the sport of croquet has been led by the Lake Toxaway CC and its Lake Toxaway Mallet Club. All the clubs have discovered what our Club and its management have found that the addition of Croquet is both a fun pastime and additional amenity but also a good financial investment to retain membership and to recruit new members. A hardy thanks to the Lake Toxaway CC for providing our excellent lawns and for the commitment to the new lawns as well.

The Golf Croquet Tournament was not only well run, but also well played. Your “team” consisted of Les and Nancy Avera, George and Susan Bagwell, Raquel Ferrero, Bunny Jones, Jeanette Wilkes and Don Molitor. The scoring was for the total number of wickets by each player and a team total without regard to matches won or lost. The games were for 25 minutes OR to four [4] wickets whichever came first. The results found Lake Toxaway in first place with 72 wickets and Highlands second with 66 wickets.

We owe a debt of gratitude to George and Jane Enochs for spear-heading the efforts to bring croquet to Lake Toxaway. Each of us CroquetNuts has enjoyed the sport and we look forward to next year when we will defend our title.

As this year winds down and we look forward to 2012 we can expect to have as many as eight clubs in the All Mountain group. Our interclub events this year was limited to four matches. It is my strong recommendation that we make every attempt to have one interclub match with each of the other seven clubs. This will take some dedication not only by our interclub planners but also each of our members to be a participant in at least one of the matches. Every club will field beginners as well as more experienced players for every match. Plan now to be part of the fun and to play an interclub match.

See you next year:

Don Molitor