26-4-2018
7th GC German Open Championship
THE EVENT
The 7th German Open Golf Croquet Tournament will be held at Renzel, close to Hamburg (Germany) from Saturday 16th to Sunday 17th June 2018. The Club will be open to competitors for practice on Thursday and Friday before the tournament starts. Holder is Andres Alvarez-Sala/Spain.
DETAILS
Entries will be limited to 12 players. We try to get in as many as possible players from abroad; a colourful field of players from many nations is part of the tradition of German Open tournaments. The field will be completed with top German players. Matches will be single 13 point games in the preliminary stage and best-of-three 13 point games in the final and semifinals. Those who do not qualify for the knock-out stage will be able to enter a Plate event. All losers will be able to continue playing so that a full final ranking of positions will be produced. The format is subject to adjustments. Two full size croquet lawns will be used double banked, except for the semi-finals and final.
EUROPEAN MASTERS
The 7th German Open GC is part of the European Masters. One player from each participating country in the European Masters to apply within two weeks from now has priority acces to our tournament. Countries that have already chosen to participate include Switzerland, Belgium, Latvia, Germany, Portugal, Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Austria, Scotland and yet more. For details concerning the European Croquet Masters please visit http://www.eurocroquet.com/ european-masters.
SOCIAL
A special emphasis will be put on the social side of the event: For this year's off-court-programme every player is asked to bring one cheese and one wine speciality from his/her home town or country. Accompanying persons are welcome to take part in the off-court-programme.
ACCOMODATION
There is a comfortable guest house next to the lawns where accomodation is available at 35,00 EUR per person and night.
TROPHY & FEE
The entry fee includes all local transport, lunch on Saturday & Sunday, Saturday night dinner and courtside drinks. Accompanying persons pay just for their meals. The fees are to be adjusted to the expenses and, for players, will be between EUR 50 and EUR 80. There will be prizes for all participants.
TO PARTICIPATE
Please contact the manager Joern Vinnen via email: jvinnen#yahoo.de (# = at) by 15th May 2018. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
Joern Vinnen
Parkstrasse 24. D-22605 Hamburg. Germany.
Fon: +49-40-46960014 (H)& +49-40-3574720 (O). Mobile: +49-172-9271835 Fax: +49-40-35747224.
PD. El número ordinal asignado a esta edición del Campeonato Abierto de Croquet GC de Alemania (7º) no es un error. Es posible que llame ahora la atención el que a la edición anterior, correspondiente al año 2017, se la numerase como novena (9ª). Eso sí fue un error, que se puso de manifiesto a instancias de la Federación Española de Croquet (FEC), que hizo entonces el debido comentario a la Federación Alemana de Croquet, que tras revisar sus archivos comprobó, en efecto, que se trataba de una equivocación. Como consecuencia, ha hecho la corrección oportuna, tal y como se refleja en la convocatoria de este año.
