Taranaki challenges the World

Taranaki challenges the World and Egyptian number 1 in the 2nd Womens World Golf Croquet Championships - Ireland.

While fellow New Zealander and team mate Dallas Cooke’s nine hour endurance match was taking place, Mavis Brogden started her second round match against Nahed Hassan (Egypt), world number one. Mavis was looking forward to the opportunity of testing her skills against Nahed and after Nahed took the first hoop Mavis showed she meant business by running the second hoop from hoop 1. Now to prove it was not a fluke Mavis also ran hoop 4 from 3. Nahed must have wondered what she had struck. The game was even from there on in and for those that know the Egyptian play know that they back themselves and will take shots mere mortals would not dream of. Nahed is the a great example of this and quite often when Mavis was in a great hoop position, Nahed would ignore her and more times than not take the longer shot and run the hoop. Nahed certainly played some great shots to pip Mavis 7-6 in the first game.

A normal person may have thought that they had proved their point in competing against the world number one, but Mavis was not finished. She immediately started applying more pressure in the second game with superb positional play. Her balls seemed to have magnet imbedded as they were never far from the front of the next hoop. This proved to be the way to go as Mavis won to the Kiwi camps delight this game 7-4.

Nahed responded as you would have expected with a great start to the second game, but coming back down the middle Mavis started clawing her way in. Eventually the score read 6-5 to Nahed with the 12th hoop furiously contested. Mavis had a half opportunity to make the hoop with an angled shot, but unfortunately balked. Nahed won 7-5. A great match that with an ounce of luck could have been a huge upset. Mavis can certainly hold her head proud that she played the match of the day.

Other New Zealand women results on day 3;

Phyllis Young lost 7-4, 6-7, 6-7 to Anne Taves (America)
Phyllis Young beat 7-5, 7-4 against Val Armstrong (South Africa)

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