Having been unable to find a suitable time at Woking, and being unable to accommodate ourselves, this game ended up being played on neutral turf in Surbiton. In short, we lost 4-3. The lawns were super-fast, thanks to the Surbiton watering system not working, leaving the lawns bone dry and actually crisp underfoot. Reigate found it difficult to adjust to the… Read more →
Dulwich v Reigate A
On a baking hot day at Dulwich, Reigate A won both of the doubles games and two of the four singles games in the morning, thus enjoying a 4-2 lead at lunch. However the scorching afternoon sun took its toll, meaning that two games were lost, before the team came though and managed the one singles win required to ensure… Read more →
Croquet Toolbox
Over the past few months we’ve released a bunch of useful features for the croquet community, so we’re pulling them all together into what we’re going to call our Croquet Toolbox, to help everyone keep track of them. If you have any ideas for new features, or comments/suggestions on the existing tools, we’re very keen to hear them! Read more →
Croquet v Football
Due to England selfishly progressing to the quarter-finals, even though they knew we had our fun tournament booked in for Saturday, we’re going to postpone the fixture for now. The Barbecue will still be going ahead as planned at 6:30, and assistance both before and after, with setting things up and taking them down, would be very much appreciated! Read more →
Handicap Calculator Update
Following an impressive win for Neil the other day, it transpired that there was an issue with the Association Bisque Calculator on this site, where it didn’t take account of the additional notional handicap steps for updating a player’s index when playing against a minus player. It can be a little confusing at first (you may be interested in David… Read more →
Southern Challenge – Division 2
The Southern Challenge is an annual Level Play Golf team event, hosted this year by Surbiton. In recent years, Reigate had accidentally won the second division, leading to a promotion to Division 1, leading to a couple of years of being pitted against some of the best players in the land – a great and informative experience, but with somewhat… Read more →
Club Competitions
Just a quick reminder for members that you can keep up to date with the results of our internal competitions on this site, and that all block games with a semi final in the Club Competitions have to be completed by July 22nd (with the remaining games completed by August 12th). Read more →
RPCC v AELTC (Golf friendly)
With temperatures in the high twenties and a lawn as hard and fast as glass, RPCC entertained AELTC to eight games of GC level play doubles. For those of you wondering, “All England Lawn Tennis Club” a.k.a. Wimbledon, or to give it it’s fullest title The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. For several weeks either side of The… Read more →
PJ’s Pot – Guildford
One of our closest neighbours, Guildford & Godalming, host an annual 1 Day Golf Handicap tournament, named PJ’s Pot, and this year Reigate sent 3 players, comprising the Knights and Michael Bye. Michael got himself into a very close and exciting final, succumbing at the death on the golden hoop to G&G’s John Gosden. You can see a more detailed… Read more →
Roehampton v Reigate A – H League
Reigate A made a brilliant start to the SECF Golf Handicap League (East) – winning both of the morning doubles games and three out of the singles – so were able to enjoy an excellent lunch having already won the match! In the afternoon the team won the doubles and one of the singles to chalk up a 7-2 win! On… Read more →