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Sun 20 - Sun 27 Jun 2004

Word Golf Croquet Championships

Marcus Evans came 18 th in the World Golf Croquet Championships held at Brighton and Eastbourne.

He came second in his block with 6 wins out of 7 and had a bye to the second round of the knockout. His first match in the knockout stage was against Ireland’s Mark McInerney. Marcus won the first game 7-2 and narrowly lost the second 6-7. In the deciding game Marcus came back from a 4-nil deficit to level the scores at 5-all, but Mark scored hoops 11 and 12 in one shot to win the game 7-5.

In the plate competition Marcus won two games, but lost his final game putting him in 18 th position overall.

This is a huge achievement for the 19 year-old Nailsea player.

Mark McInerney went on to finish in 4 th place.

The winner was the Egyptian, Ahmad Nasr, who beat Dennis Bullock from New Zealand in the Final.

Egyptian’s took three of the top six places.

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