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Phil Cordingley Tournament Director |
Phil Cordingley is a veteran of the croquet world, with over 40 years of accomplishments both on the lawn and in the smoke filled committee rooms of the CA and CqE. This will be the fifth occasion he has Directed a WCF World Championship.
Appearances on the lawn restricted almost totally these days to assisting with development at Hampstead Heath CC where he is a founder member, he is more likely to be found pedalling his bike around Britain, Europe, Infinity and beyond. |
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Mike Town Tournament Manager |
Mike first played croquet on a rugby pitch at school in Bradford, but apart from a few games while a student on London, did not play regularly for another ten years.
His job as an IT consultant has enabled him to play in tournaments not only in the UK, but also in the USA, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Luxembourg and Switzerland, as well as regular trips to South Africa. He played in the AC World Championship in New Zealand in 2018 and the USA in 2025. His managing career started in the early 1990s. Since then he has run tournaments at Guildford, Roehampton, East Dorset, Budleigh Salterton and his home club, Woking. He was Tournament Manager for the AC World Championships centred on Surbiton in 2013 and Hurlingham in 2023, and the GC World Championships based at Southwick in 2019, 2022 and the Women’s in 2023. |
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Ian Vincent Tournament Referee |
Ian Vincent has refereed MacRobertson Shield matches in all four of the competing countries, having first done so in 1996.
He was Tournament Referee when it was last held in England, in 2010, and was a member of the WCF Committee that prepared the 7th edition of the AC Laws. He expects to start by officiating for the lower tiers at his home club, Nottingham, before coming down to Southwick, where he first played a tournament in 1972, and Surbiton, where he is a far country member, for the final two pairs of tests. So he should know where the hoop buckets are kept. |
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Jeff Dawson Tournament Referee |
Born in 1956, Jeff is married with two grown-up sons. Originally a software engineer and project manager, he left to run the CA’s on-line shop which he did for 7 years before taking early retirement. He then worked for 10 years as a volunteer with Citizens Advice.
Jeff has been active on the CA council, serving as Chairman for 2 years as well as on the marketing, publishing, ICT, Laws and International committees at various times. He was responsible for the recent membership structure changes, and helped with the database project which implemented them. He is also an AC referee, is currently chair of the CqE AC laws committee, and periodically runs laws courses to train new referees. Jeff plays mostly Association croquet, although he has dabbled with Golf Croquet a little. Jeff lives in Bournemouth and is a member of the East Dorset Croquet Club. He has been playing croquet for over 45 years, and has played in the President’s cup (for the top 8 available players) several times, and has won the Chairman’s Salver (for the second 8) three times. As well as croquet, Jeff likes to go on walking holidays. |
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Rosemary Landrebe WCF Event Lead |
Rosemary has been a senior manager in various roles, specialising in operations management and analysis. She has experience of managing stakeholders at all levels working across sporting and not-for-profit organisations. She has also spent time supporting Croquet Australia and the New South Wales boards, working on various implementation and improvement projects and coaching programs. Rosemary has been playing croquet for more than 40 years, plays both AC and GC at the top level, and has represented Australia and New South Wales on several occasions. She is Secretary General of the World Croquet Federation. |
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Alison Maugham Communications Director |
Alison is passionate about the development of Croquet, from Grass Roots through to International Championships. Alison enjoys supporting players, clubs, volunteers and officials in her role within Croquet England.
Since spectating at the MacRobertson Shield in Australia in 2017, she has been looking forward to the Mac returning to England. |
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Ian Lines Croquet England Representative |
Ian is a safety and risk management consultant who started playing croquet in 1993, and won the 1995 All England Association Handicap Championship. Since then, he has won the Chairman’s Salver several times, the Coles Championship and the North of England and South of England Championships. He has played a number of times for England in the Home Internationals and for Great Britain in the Solomon Trophy, and been ranked as high as 5th in the Association Croquet world rankings.
Although primarily an Association player, Ian also enjoys Golf croquet, where his greatest achievements have been winning the Musk Cup in 2007 and the Plate at the 2008 World Championship in Capetown. However, his proudest croquet achievement was to be a member of the Great Britain team that won the MacRobertson Shield in 2010. Ian has travelled the world to play croquet, and won the 2009 New Zealand Open Doubles with Michael Wright. Ian was the Tournament Secretary for Bowdon Croquet Club for many years, and also served as Secretary of the North West Federation of Croquet Clubs. He is currently the Chairman of Croquet England’s International Committee, and also Chairman of the England AC Selection Committee. As well as playing croquet, Ian enjoys walking and travel with his wife Debbie. |
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Jon Diamond Website Manager |
Jon has been website manager for several of the recent World Croquet Championships in England as well as for his club, Tunbridge Wells, and Croquet South East, for whom he is also Secretary.
He does play croquet, having learnt 25 years ago, both GC and AC, although never having achieved anything like these exalted levels. |