{"id":1237,"date":"2025-09-30T15:36:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2025-09-30T15:36:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:36:56","slug":"rochdale-take-first-ever-ryders-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/rochdale-take-first-ever-ryders-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochdale Take First Ever Ryders Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Inaugural Ryder Cup<\/strong> <strong>of Boules<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The very first <strong>Ryders <strong>Cup<\/strong> of Boules <\/strong> took place on Sunday, 28th September, in mostly sunny conditions, as teams from <strong>Heckmondwike<\/strong> and <strong>Rochdale<\/strong> battled it out for the new Trophy Cup. In total, 32 players took part across both sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rochdale made a flying start, racing into an <strong>8\u20132 lead after the first two rounds<\/strong>. Heckmondwike rallied in the doubles, with 2 wins, 2 losses, and 2 draws in what proved to be a fiercely competitive stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the final round of triples, Rochdale were ahead <strong>12\u20138<\/strong>, making them strong favourites going into the singles. But, in true Ryder Cup fashion, Heckmondwike refused to give in. Their comeback had Rochdale rocking, and with just four singles matches left the score stood at <strong>15\u201313<\/strong>. Ultimately, Rochdale held their nerve, closing out the match <strong>19\u201313<\/strong> to claim the <strong>first-ever Ryder Cup of Boules<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Special Mentions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Thanks to Darren (Heckmondwike) &amp; Ian (Rochdale)<\/strong> for organising such a fantastic competition.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Heckmondwike team<\/strong> \u2013 for all their help with arrangements and for keeping everyone topped up with tea and coffee throughout the day.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fran\u00e7ois &amp; Migs<\/strong> \u2013 for an epic singles marathon, boule-for-boule, end-for-end. A truly outstanding match!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rochdale\u2019s Top Players of the Day<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Dave &amp; Linda H<\/strong> \u2013 our golden couple, winning all 4 of their matches.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fran\u00e7ois<\/strong> \u2013 3 wins and a draw, plus his marathon singles game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>While the competition was intense and hard-fought, the day was also full of laughter and camaraderie. As always, Heckmondwike were perfect hosts \u2013 thank you for such a brilliant day. We look forward to welcoming you to Milnrow for the return fixture\u2026 though we fully intend to hold onto the Trophy! \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"528\" data-id=\"1240\" src=\"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DEB04523.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DEB04523.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DEB04523-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DEB04523-1024x451.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inaugural Ryder Cup of Boules The very first Ryders Cup of Boules took place on Sunday, 28th September, in mostly sunny conditions, as teams from Heckmondwike and Rochdale battled &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/rochdale-take-first-ever-ryders-cup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rochdale Take First Ever Ryders Cup&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochdalepetanque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}