The Annual Club Doubles were held on 26 October 2025 in the usual format of a 3 round melee with partners being selected at random with the help of a little seeding to try to get evenly balanced teams as far as possible. 28 Members entered making up 14 teams
After the first round, among the winners Alex Skibinski/Stephen Haynes took an early lead with +11 followed by Robin Ralph/Stephen Haynes on +9 and Tony Smith/Lloyd Kinsey on +7
Could these 3 pairs sustain their lead in Round 2? When the dust settled, we had only 3 pairs on 2 wins with Alex/Stephen and Robin/Stephen having fallen at the second hurdle. Now the leaders were Tony/Lloyd +15, Len Christian/Francis Ryan on +14, Mike Jones/John Griffiths on +11.
So onto the final round with all to play for. One of the teams on 1 win could still come through if the 3 leaders failed to win in Round 3. But it proved not to be with all 3 winning to finish as the only teams on 3 wins. But for the second competition running, 2 teams were tied on +23 and were even tied on “points for” at 38. So it was onto the Golden End.
Tony/Lloyd won the toss and Lloyd put in a good opening boule around 30-40cms from the cosh. Inexplicably, Len/Francis chose to try and outpoint it and after all 6 boules, Lloyd’s boule was still holding and Tony/Lloyd were declared the winners.
Congratulations to Tony/Lloyd, commiserations to Len/Francis and thanks to all the members who took part.
For the second year running, Maddie Bartlett won the Best Junior Award. Well done Maddie!
The big question is, will the Club Triples on 9 November produce yet another tie with a Golden End?
RESULTS
THE WINNERS
