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.
Good luck to Lynn Jenkins, Shirley Legge, Robbie Stronach and John Wilson who travel to Ghent this week for the FIPJP World Championships. You can follow their progress here.
Details regarding the Celtic Challenge have now been published and can be found here. Players are asked to note that we will be operating time limited games and should familiarise themselves with the rules we will be using (some of which are different from the timed game rules normally used in our own competitions). You can […]
Inverleith PC went head-to-head with Fochabers PC on Sunday 2nd April at Perth PC’s terrain to decide which club would take Scotland’s place in the 2017 EuroCup for clubs. The qualifier followed the format of one EuroCup match, with 6 Singles games, 3 Doubles and 2 Triples. 2 Match Points were awarded for a Singles […]