SPA Grand Prix 1 was hosted by Inverleith Petanque Club at Inverleith Park in Edinburgh on Sunday 25th April. Players representing clubs from Inverness, Fochabers, Perth, Stirling, Inverleith and Troon registered fifteen teams to play in GP1, a number that bodes well for GP‘s 2 and 3. The format was a seven round Snake (six games […]
The second Club Open Competition of the 2010 Season was the FENTON QUAICH run by the Perth Petanque Club at the North Inch in Perth on 18th April. On not the most pleasant of spring days – we experienced dull, damp, wet, fair, sun, rain and sleet – well perhaps that is a typical spring […]
The Francis Faber Memorial Pairs was held at Inverleith Petanque Club on 11th April. Last year a fine summer’s day drew fourteen teams, this year an even finer spring day only nine teams turned up. All the usual suspects from Fochabers, Inverleith, Perth and Stirling registered to play for our sadly departed Frenchman Francis Faber’s […]
The first SPA Competition of the 2010 Season is the NORTH v the SOUTH hosted by Perth Petanque Club at the North Inch in Perth on 28th March. “A CLOSE AFFAIR” With fingers crossed for good weather and remembering to put forward our clocks the SPA hoped for a reasonable turnout to the start of […]
The SPA Scottish Masters 2009 was hosted by Inverness Petanque Club at Fairways Golf Club in Inverness on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th of September. The twelve teams that qualified for the Masters 2009 were, in alphabetical order – Barons – Robin Gardiner, Donnie MacIntyre, Brian Ward. Bears – Gavin Hilson, Mike Watt, Alex Davie. Birds and […]
The Waverly Vintners Pairs was held on Perth Petanque Club’s piste at the North Inch Perth on a not unpleasant late summer’s day. Ten eager Perth club members had turned up by 9.30 and were hopeful that some visitors would roll up before 10 o’clock. But nary a one – not even that grand supporter […]
The Francis Faber Memorial Pairs was held at Inverleith Petanque Club. A fine summer’s day drew fourteen teams, made up of players from the clubs of Inverleith, Fochabers, Perth and Stirling to register for our ‘favourite’ sadly departed Frenchman Francis Faber to play for his Trophy. And where were the Troonies this time? Doing battle […]
SPA Scottish Triples was held at Inverleith Park hosted by the Inverleith Petanque Club on Sunday the 19th of July. Twelve teams rolled up on a grey morning to the welcoming smell of bacon or sausage butties and coffee. Of the twelve teams nine were Grand Prix teams, albeit a couple of heavyweights were missing, so […]
The William Leishman Memorial Trophy was held by the Ayr Petanque Club. On a dull morning fourteen players from Ayr, Perth and Twecher ,guess who, turned up bright eyed and bushy tailed to compete for the elegant new WLM Trophy on APP’s piste at the Scottish Bowling Centre in Ayr. A disappointing number of competitors […]
The 2009 Singles Championship started off promisingly but halfway through the first game the heavy rain arrived. Thankfully it only lasted a short time and by the end of the first game the rain had gone. The weather for the rest of the day remained mainly sunny with a little bit of cloud. There were […]