Tag: crown green bowls competition
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Eastwood Cup 2026
Believe it or not, the Eastwood Cup this year was not run by humans alone. With 10 entries into the Eastwood Cup, Janice turned to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help her design a suitable competition format for 10 players. AI not only decided that a round robin with 2 groups of 5 players would be…
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Billy Miller Cup 2025
For the first time this year, a club competition was predominantly played under wet conditions. Twenty competitors took to the green in five groups of four, with everyone playing others in their group once in the first stage of this round robin style tournament, all playing for the Billy Miller Cup. Rain did not stop…
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President’s Day 2025
On Sunday 6th July 2025, the Hoole President’s Day began early, with this year’s President, John Medcalf eager for the competition to get going. The format would be a knockout, with a consolation ‘plate’ round for those losing their first game. While those not involved in the first games looked on, John wandered around the…
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Tony Brogden Cup 2025
As forecast, the Tony Brogden Cup got underway with a blanket of showery skies forcing players to dig out their waterproofs. But after the first round, fine weather prevailed and the bowlers enjoyed a dry day in the sunshine. The cup was run as a round-robin, with the players divided into groups of 4. Each…
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Eastwood Cup 2025 Results
Sunday saw the first club competition of the year take place – the Eastwood Cup.
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President’s Day 2024 Results
President’s Day kicked off with a large number of entries taking part in the competition’s first round, on what began as a wet and windy Sunday morning. This year’s club President, Geoff Blamire, was amongst the field of entries, and soon progressed to the second round. By lunchtime, the sun began to peek through, and, combined…
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In-House Doubles and Singles Results
This week saw the culmination of the Hoole in-house doubles and singles competitions for the 2022 season. The final of the doubles was fought between Gail Cafferkey/John Medcalf and Bob Clark/Phil Smallshaw, with Gail and John (pictured above) taking the doubles crown. In the singles final, John Medcalf triumphed against Phil Smallshaw, giving him the…
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Cartmel Cup Results
Sunday 18th September 2022 saw 24 players take to the Hoole green in the Cartmel Cup competition. Despite the combination of sunshine and showers changing the green conditions as the day progressed, an extremely high standard of bowling was produced. The overall winner was Chairman, Peter Carr (pictured above), who retained the title this year,…
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Hoole Village Hall Cup – 21st August
A fabulous day of bowling for the Hoole Village Hall Cup. This was a doubles game and after several rounds the winners were Chris & David Coxhead who beat, in a very close game, Peter Carr and Alan Ormesher in the final. We would like to thank everyone who supported this event and £71 was…
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President’s Day – 10th July
President : Mrs Janette Smith President’s day was a very enjoyable day with lots of close games. The finalists were Gail Cafferkey and John Medcalf. After a very competitive game, Gail eventually won taking the President’s Day Cup. Pictured left to right: 2022 Chairperson Peter Carr, President Janette Smith and competition winner, Gail Cafferkey