This is the confirmed player list for the 2007 North
American Open:• 5/22/2007 2007 North American Open (13-May -- 19-May)
Jim Bast
Paul Bennett
Jim Butts
Brian Cumming
Doug Grimsley
Tony Hall
Danny Huneycutt
Stewart Jackson
Rory Kelley
Jonathan Kirby
Rich Lamm
Leo McBride (Defending Champion)
Mik Mehas
Johnny Mitchell
Stephen Mulliner
Erv Peterson
Ed Roberts
Britt Ruby
Martyn Selman
Charles Smith
The tournament will be played in two round-robin
blocks of ten, with block play starting on Sunday, May
13 and ending on Wednesday, May 16. Twelve players
will make the cut and will play off in a single-
elimination 2-of-3 match round from Thursday, May 17
through Friday, May 18. The final match will be held
on Saturday morning, May 19. There will also be a
Swiss-format plate competition starting on May 17.
First place prize is $3000
Second place prize is $1500
Third place prize is $1000
Plate prize is $500
The main venue will be the Sonoma-Cutrer Vinyard
courts in Windsor, CA, with some of the plate play
taking place on the court owned by Jane McDonnell and
Mike Lufkin in Santa Rosa, CA.
For more information contact Mike Orgill at 707-585-
7819 or morgill@sonic.net.
Jonathan Kirby defeated last year's champion Leo
McBride the final match of the 2007 North American
Open. Kirby's recap of the final match from the
Nottingham Board will follow. Plate results will
follow.
1. Jonathan Kirby $3000
2. Leo McBride $1500
3. Stephen Mulliner $1000
4. Brian Cumming $500
Plate Winner: Doug Grimsley $500
PLAYOFF MATCHES (2 of 3)
Danny Huneycutt beat Paul Bennett +26TP +11TP
Tony Hall beat Ed Roberts +15 +26TP
Rich Lamm beat Doug Grimsley +16, -17TP, +14
Jim Bast beat Mik Mehas +5, -3, +25
Stephen Mulliner beat Danny Huneycutt +20TP +25
Jonathan Kirby beat Tony Hall +17TP +13TPO
Brian Cumming beat Rich Lamm +26TP +16TP
Leo McBride beat Jim Bast +2 +26
Jonathan Kirby beat Stephen Mulliner +18TP +26TP
Leo McBride beat Brian Cumming -26TP, +4, +26TP
Stephen Mulliner beat Brian Cumming +26TP +22TP (FOR
THIRD PLACE)
Jonathan Kirby beat Leo McBride -26TP, +26TP, +12TPO
(FOR FIRST PLACE)
Block finish: Top six in each block went on to the
playoff. (Ties were broken by head-to-head results,
followed by net points)
Blue Block:
1. Stephen Mulliner 8 wins +137 net
2. Brian Cumming 7, +92
3. Tony Hall 6, +27
4. Jim Bast 5, +14 (beat Huneycutt)
5. Danny Huneycutt 5, +4
6. Rich Lamm 4, -7 (beat Ruby)
7. Britt Ruby 4, -30
8. Martyn Selman 3, -27
9. Jim Butts 2, -81
10. Charlie Smith 1, -129
Red Block
1. Leo McBride 7, +106
2. Jonathan Kirby 6, +74 (beat Bennett, lost to
Grimsley)
3. Doug Grimsley 6, +68 (beat Kirby, lost to Bennett)
4. Paul Bennett 6, +29 (lost to Kirby, beat Grimsley)
5. Mik Mehas 5, +42 (beat Jackson, beat Roberts)
6. Ed Roberts 5, -22 (beat Jackson, lost to Mehas)
7. Stewart Jackson 5, +68 (lost to Mehas, lost to
Roberts)
8. Johnny Mitchell 3, -85
9. Erv Peterson 2, -91
10. Rob Coleman 0, -189
Plate Results -- Michael Orgill
The plate was contested on the Jane McDonnell/Mike Lufkin court in Santa Rosa, California. Thanks to Mike Lufkin for all his help in making this beautiful court available. The bottom four finishers in each block went into the plate, later joined by the losers in the first round matches of the playoff. Plate Results 17 May -18 May 2007 in order of play Britt Ruby defeated Rob Coleman +20 Jim Butts defeated Johnny Mitchell +1 Erv Peterson defeated Martyn Selman (no score provided) Charlie Smith defeated Stewart Jackson (forfeit) Paul Bennett defeated Britt Ruby +19 Doug Grimsley defeated Jim Butts +26TP Mik Mehas defeated Erv Peterson (no score provided) Charlie Smith defeated Ed Roberts (no score provided) Doug Grimsley defeated Paul Bennett +14 Charlie Smith defeated Erv Peterson +4 (Mehas could not play after defeating Peterson and Peterson was put into the slot to face Smith) Plate Match final: Doug Grimsley defeated Charlie Smith +24TP, +4
• 5/22/2007
2007 North American Open
(13-May -- 19-May)
Final Match Recap -- Michael Orgill
The final match was recapped on the Nottingham Board
by champion Jonathan Kirby:
Jonathan Kirby beat Leo McBride -25TP, +17TP, +12TPO
The final lasted 5 1/4 hours, and the exhibition golf
croquet match
was well underway by the time we finished, so we
didn't get round to
reporting the scores.
The lawn was medium paced (slow for American players,
9 on the
stimpmeter I was told, I'd guess around 10-11
Plummers). Hoops very
soft in the ground, clearances about 1/32".
Game 1: A defensive opening by Leo. I made one hoop to
get a leave
with Leo having a 25 yard shot (he hadn't shot at
anything
previously). Leo hit, and I missed the lift. Leo
finished on the 9th
turn. Before he pegged out, Stephen Mulliner pegged
out in the second
game of his best of three.
Game 2: Fifth turn. Leo got the balls in position for
a 4th turn tpo
then decided against it.
Game 3: This game was more interesting.
1:Leo plays K as a deep supershot ball
2: R to 2 yards E of peg
3: U trickles at R from near corner 1, missing
4: Y misses double from B baulk
5: K to 4b, diagonal spread, with boundary ball U
wired from the end
of A baulk by hoop 4, Y at the peg.
6: R hits K from the end of A baulk.
[Leo made exactly the same leave in all three games,
and I took the
same shot in all three.]
Tidy tpo with peels done by 3b but no peels on other
balls. Leave with
Y in corner II, R on East boundary 1 yard N of hoop 4
(with hoop 4
wiring the roll to 2-3 yard position at hoop 1.
7. Leo takes contact from R and mishits roll to 1,
with R ending 6
yards too far and U 5 yards short. Takes 5 foot
straight position at
1, leaving R (the peg ball) a 12-13 yard shot.
8. R to corner IV.
9. U runs 1, hits R. Takes off to Y in corner II, but
underhits and
ends up wired from Y by hoop 2. Attempts to jump over
the hoop, but
hits the crown and ends up on W boundary level with
hoop 2.
10. Y rushes U along the yard line to level with hoop
1. Croquets U
near the middle of the North boundary, going to R in
IV. Rolls to
guard corner 1, wiring boundary ball at the expense of
having a rush
to 1.
11. U to about 5 yards out of IV, on the South
boundary.
12. Y approaches 1 sending R 4 yards straight in
front, for a forward
rush to 2. Runs hoop and just trickles into R. Looks
at wiring lines
and then decides to roll to 2. Ends up 6" to the side
of 2, with R a
yard off the N boundary, 5 yards E of 2. Retreats to
corner II which
is wired from U.
13. U declines shot at R, which would have given him a
good chance and
me a 12 yard shot with Y (or 1 yard with R), and goes
to the West
boundary about 12 yards S of Y. Y hits safe shot at U,
rolls U to 3
going to R, approaches 2 and has a break. Pioneer for
3 is very close
to the hoop, and trickles into it running the hoop. At
this point my
mind was not very composed, half thinking about Tony
Hall's commentary
on the exhibition match, and a little bit thinking
about this being a
winning break. The roll to 4 and 5 was not really
hampered, except
that hoop 3 was where I wanted to put my left foot.
Somehow, I didn't
get balanced properly and hit the roll with the corner
of the mallet
face - each ball travelling about 3 feet. It hadn't
really occurred to
me that I should call a referee, since the stroke was
trivially easy,
so I called Leo over and declared the fault on myself.
[Rather embarrassingly, that's the second tournament
in a row where I
have had to call a fault on myself on the last day,
although the
previous time was in a croquet stroke in the middle of
the lawn, where
there was no reason to have a referee at all.]
14. Leo was then incredibly obliging as he played a
terrible take off
from 3 to the ball at 4, failing to get a rush to 2.
He attempted to
roll to 2, but sent the front ball off the lawn,
ending well short.
15. R hits 13 yarder at U, croquets it to near corner
II going to Y,
and rolling to guard corner IV.
16. U closely misses Y.
17. Y hits 6 yard pick up into corner IV and finishes.
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