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Croquet - an enjoyable, affordable, lifetime sport for all ages.
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Strathfield Croquet Club acknowledges the Wangal people, traditional owners of the lands on which we meet and enjoy croquet.
Petula Shun
Strathfield Club Captain
Captain’s Report
October 2025
Lawn maintenance continues. Hopefully we will be back playing at the end of this week.
I wish to thank Fiona Gale from Holroyd for offering our players to play ricochet during this period. Sandra Townley from Epping and Eastwood facilitated Gateball players to practice on their courts.
Strathfield Girls High School coaching sessions were completed successfully. All of our coaches were very impressed with this group of girls. They were polite and seem to enjoy the sport of croquet, making it a very pleasant experience for all.
Congratulations to the Enid Brown Friendship Trophy winners. Strathfield won all 3 of their rounds. The team included Carmen Platt, Cherie Elias, Deb Heagney , Sally Trainer and Pauline Hogan.
Strathfield Gateball team was in action last weekend at the National Gateball Championship. 20 doubles and 16 teams competed. This included one team from Hong Kong and Chinese Taipei. Players from Japan and Pakistan played doubles and joined with Australian players to play teams.
Peter Brown and Petula Shun played doubles, reaching the quarterfinals .The team consisted of
Jennie Brentnall, Julia Rizzo, Doris Kao, Peter Brown, Petula Shun and two Cooks River players Lorraine Hatfield and Lynda Toms. The team played very well.
Captain’s Report
September 2025
Petula Shun
Strathfield Club Captain
Competition continues. Enid Brown was played at Strathfield and Epping. It is always a friendly competition between the 5 clubs. Strathfield was the winner.
[Editor's Note: The Enid Brown Friendship Games were introduced in 1962. An annual event, initially in just Association Croquet, more recently the Enid Brown Trophy in Golf Croquet has been introduced. The participating clubs are Cheltenham, Eastwood, Epping, Strathfield and Warrawee.]
Another month with rain soaked lawns!
The first Makara Gateball competition was held on Sunday 14th. 3 clubs participated.
Beautiful sunny spring day with Nowra Red the winners. Cooks River the runners up.
Thank you to Strathfield Council for the speedy driveway work. I think it is definitely safe to walk on. Hopefully the car park will follow.
The lawns will close on September 24 th. Members will be informed when we reopen for play. Holroyd club (Burnett St Parramatta) has kindly left their playing time schedule at the club and invited members to join them while our club is closed.
Captain’s Report August 2025
Strathfield GC players continue to compete in the Makara competition with plenty of spirit and the players are very eager to improve their game. This year Makara will include Gateball for the first time . This completion will involve Strathfield, Cooks River, Hazelbrook and Nowra and be held at Strathfield and Cooks River.
Good luck to the Enid Brown teams that will commence next month.
Strathfield seniors croquet (advertised as free lessons for seniors) continues be a great success with numbers growing every month. It is held once a month for the 6 months. This is a state government programme that with council and state support has been after, a few hiccups, successful.
The Strathfield Girls High School programme also is working well. It continues with plenty of interest in the game.
Thank you to all the coaches that help. Without your continued support this would not be possible. A club only grows when members support it.
The club lawns will be closed from Monday 25th August to Monday 1st September, to facilitate council installing a new concrete driveway and other minor works. Thank you to council for agreeing to this project.
Keep safe .
Captain’s Report July 2025
Strathfield continues to support NSW croquet by hosting competitions.
Ann and Cheryl successfully facilitated the NSW GC Advantage Doubles
2025. It was run as a trial GC Advantage Target Scores System event .
12 pairs participated with games played late into the afternoon using the
assistance of the club verandah lights!. Congratulations to Maggie and Paul
Gerbich (Queanbeyan), the winners, and Ann Clifton and Peter Edsor
( Queanbeyan), the runners up.
A full report by Ann Shaddick is on the Strathfield website. I would like to
acknowledge Cheryl’s wonderful computer skills .As a trial scoring event it
would not be possible without her skills. Again the club gains from both Ann
and Cheryl’s skills and more importantly the time they give to the club.
This weekend we continue to Host Chinese and Korean Strathfield residents,
in conjunction with Strathfield Council teaching them Golf Croquet with the
assistance of translators. We provide the lawns, coached and afternoon tea.
Ricochet Hi /Low competition commences this week. Makara GC teams
continue to compete. Home games are posted on the club board. Anyone
free is invited to offer their assistance to help.
Just a reminder the club committee minutes are posted in the club for all to
read. They include the treasurer and captain’s reports.
Captain’s Report June 2025
Strathfield croquet players continue to do the club proud! Jeffrey Regan is now the Ricochet NSW Division 3 singles winner. Thank you Jeff for wearing our uniform!
Newcastle’s triple competition was held last weekend. Strathfield had two teams
competing. Albert,DK, Ray in one team, Doris Jimmy and Petula in the other. Both played well, winning some games. The second team came third overall, the other seventh.
Owing to the ricochet players having busy life’s in June, the hi/ low competition has been delayed to August / September.Golf croquet Makara commences next month. Thank you to all that will compete. This year for the first time we will have at least one team in each division.