58729 CAQ GC Men's Open Singles

17 -19 May

17 May at  Eildon for the qualifying blocks.

18 & 19 May at Eildon for the Knockout of 8 and for the Plate Blocks.

Players will be seeded on the closing day by their World Rankings by the CAQ Selection Committee on 2 May at 5pm. If the player has no world ranking then they will be seeded by current handicap and index. The draws will be published on croquetscores.com at least one day before the competition begins. The list of entrants will be available on this site.

Registration starts at 7.30am

Play Starts at 8am

Hoops will be set at 3 11/16” with an upward tolerance of zero and a downward tolerance of 1/32”

WCF endorsed balls will be used

Format: 2 Round Robin Blocks of8 players with 13 point, 1.hr timed games on Saturday at  Eildon. The top 4 from each block qualify for an XYZW  knockout. The knockout will be  Best of Three 13 pt games to begin on Sunday and finish on Monday both days at Eildon.

The first two XYZ rounds will each have a total time limit of four hours to be played on Sunday and the remaining round of best of three to be played on Monday at Eildon with a four hour time limit.

Players who do not qualify to remain in the Championship XYZW enter directly into the Consolation Plate Event to be played at Eildon, starting on Sunday and finishing on Monday. The Plate Event is played in a Round Robin block of 19 point games with a time limit of 1h 30 mins each. There will be a winner and a runner up. 

Prizes and trophies: Men's Singles Championship Trophy, Carmel Donley Plate and badges.

Practice session on Friday 16th  at Windsor 3.30 - 4.30pm

Practice session on Friday 16th at Eildon 12 - 2pm

Eildon - Sandwiches will be available on Saturday for order $6. eftpos preferred

Video and live streaming may be carried out at the competiton

All players and officials will be given the opportunity to give feedback after the event.

Questions - please email Marilyn Nelson golf@croquetqld.org  or Megan Stuart events@croquetqld.org