2 Wood Singles

On Sunday 9th July, the Club held a new One-Day competition, the 2 Wood Singles. Previously played as a Knockout Competition throughout the season, it had never been popular so the Club thought it would see how it went as a One-Day event.

As 12 players had entered it was organised into 2 pools of 6 so that each pool member played 5 games. Each game consisted of 10 ends each, played with the jack at pre-set positions, short, mid-length and long with the mat always placed at the 2m mark (or thereabouts). This meant the game could be played without markers and sped the game up even more so each game was about 30 minutes long.

The first game started at 10:30am and after the 2nd game everyone had a tea/coffee break. This was followed by another 2 games before lunch. Scorecards were tallied and the position declared so that everyone knew what they had to do to get into the top 2 of their respective pool.

The Blue Pool was showing a clear distinction between the top two in the pool, Dave Wilson and Colin Ward, and the rest of the players.

However, in the Red Pool there was a four-way tie on 6 points only separated by shot difference and ends won.

There was a little extra spice in the 5th game with a husband and wife match up (Barrie Davies versus Jeanie Davies) which could determine who would be in the semi-finals.

The final table, shown below, shows that Jeanie beat Barrie but not quite enough to get to the top of the Red Pool having a shot difference of 1 less than Simon Hatcher. That meant the semi-finals were played between Dave Wilson (winner of the Blue Pool) and Jeanie Davies (runner-up in the Red Pool) in one game and between Simon Hatcher (winner of the Red Pool) and Colin Ward (runner-up in the Blue Pool).

The semi-finals were 10 end games like the round robin games and Dave continued to show he was on fine form that day by beating Jeanie. The match between Simon and Colin was only decided on the last two ends after being level after 8 ends. Colin won through and again faced Dave after playing him previously in the round robin event.

The final followed on almost immediately from the semi-finals and after 10 ends, just like their pool game, the game was tied on 6 shots all.

Unlike the pool games, the rule for the semi-finals and the final was, in the event of a drawn game, a further end had to be played to determine the winner.

Colin (on the right) was the victor and was crowned winner of the 2 Wood Singles.