- By Ken Holmes
“Serious skilful challenge plus social fun in the fresh air, it’s just what the doctor ordered.”
That was the reaction of Christian Pulley, manager of Pakuranga Park Retirement Village carefully observing the two days of golf croquet which his village sponsored at the Howick Croquet Club (HCC) on Saturday and Sunday February 19 and 20, two full days of serious golf croquet competition over four greens.
In handing out the winners’ prizes, Pulley confirmed his Pakuranga Park Village living environment theme of “Retirement at its very best” and confirmed how enthusiastic he is to recommend golf croquet to his retirement village residents (even though he doesn’t yet play it himself).
The HCC Open Handicap Doubles tournament (Saturday 19) split into two groups to cope with the numbers registered, and winners were: White Group winners: Colleen Muir and Kurt Warn (Pakuranga Croquet Club); White Group runners-up: John Wood and Ken Lyon (Pakuranga Croquet Club). Blue Group winners: Jack Bardsley and Raewyn Furness (Howick Croquet Club); Blue Group runners-up: Pam and Neil Henderson (Pakuranga Croquet Club).
The HCC Open Handicap Singles tournament (Sunday 20) was also split in to two groups, and results eventually emerged as: White Group winner was Raewyn Furness (Howick Croquet Club) with runner-up Pam Shoebridge (Pakuranga Croquet Club); Green Group winner was Graeme Norton (Papakura Croquet Club) with runner-up John Wood (Pakuranga Croquet Club).
- Ken Holmes is from the Howick Croquet Club
