Melrose Gala Petanque Club are hosting the SPA Triples on Sunday 27th August at their home piste at the Kingsknowes Hotel, Galashiels. Registration is 9.00 – 9.15 and play will commence at 9.30. Entry £6 per player and teams of 3 or 4 players can enter. The club have arranged for a light lunch to […]
This weekend, eight teams from Scotland will compete against squads from England, Jersey and Wales in the 2017 Home Nations at Hayling Island. The squad is: Scotland 1: Emma Montgomery, Colin Stewart, Derek Adam Scotland 2: Art Ager, John Dryburgh, John Taylor Scotland 3: Mags Montgomery, Colin Montgomery, Matthew Neilson Scotland 4: Alison Swiffin, Christine […]
Good luck to Inverleith PC who travel this week to Draguinan, France for the EuroCup Qualifying Round which starts this Thursday. Their opponents will be the club champions from France, Latvia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Czech Republic and Slovakia. The top 2 teams from the round robin qualifier will play in the EuroCup Finals later in the […]
Nineteen players registered to compete in the SPA Singles Championship on Saturday 15 July, held at Inverleith PC. Derek Adam emerged victorious and in doing so finally completed a full set of lifelong SPA titles. Derek and Lynn Jenkins, the highest placed female player, will be invited to represent Scotland at the 2018 European Singles […]
The SPA now has its own formal umpires training and qualification structure and invited International Umpire Mike Pegg to deliver and umpire’s course and set an exam on the weekend of 8 and 9 July at Inverleith. Following the course and examination, the following qualifications have been awarded: Mags Montgomery – SPA Senior Umpire Colin […]
Once again, 18 teams registered to contest the final Grand Prix of 2017 at Troon, the results of which would determine who would win the Grand Prix Series, the eight teams which will represent Scotland at next year’s Home Nations and the twelve teams that will progress to the Scottish Masters in September. The competition […]
Once again, 18 teams registered for the next instalment of the SPA Grand Prix Series, this time hosted by Perth PC on Sunday 14 May. Play took a familiar turn, with Triaxle emerging victorious once more with a perfect 6 wins. Pretty Vacant were second with 5 wins and the Sex Pisteols were third with […]
On 29th and 30th April, the Scottish Petanque Association welcomed our friends from Ireland and Wales to the 29th Celtic Challenge at Inverleith PC in Edinburgh. Scotland fielded the top 8 teams from the 2016 Masters competition in 2 squads, A (the top 4) and B (teams 5 to 8). Ireland and Wales each fielded […]
Eighteen teams registered to compete in the first Grand Prix of 2017, played at Inverleith PC on Sunday 23rd April. It is encouraging to see a number of newcomers to Grand Prix (and some veteran returners too!). The usual six round ‘Swiss Ladder’ with time limited games format continues for Grand Prix this year. The […]
League pétanque made a welcome return to Scotland on Easter Sunday as Inverleith hosted Melrose in the inaugural Lothian & Borders Pétanque League match. Each league match consists of two doubles rounds, one single and one triple. Inverleith won the match 6 games to 0.