Singles

Andrew Bellamy-Burt won the 2025 Guernsey Open Singles competition. He beat Ross Payne in the final. The last eight comprised of five teams from Jersey, two from Pétanque Events in the UK and one from Guernsey. Clare Revill beat Geoffroy Buffetrille, Craig Allen beat Callum Stewrt, Ross Payne beat Tony Northern and Andrew Bellamy-Burt beat Clive da Silva.

In the semi finals, Ross beat Craig and Andrew beat Clare. This resulted in an all Jersey final which Andrew duly won.

Alan Olivier won the Plate and Cassie Stewart-Le Gallais won the Consolage I. Pete Lynas won the Consolage II and Paula Fauvel won Consolage III.

Doubles

Geoffroy Buffetrille and Andrew Bellamy-Burt have won the Guernsey Open Doubles tournament. They were a class above their opponents and beat Guernsey pair Giles Cleal and Lee Holberry in the semi final before beating Craig Allen and Toby Northern in the final. Both players played to a high standard and they won their semi and final easily.

In the plate, Pétanque Events team Migs Trimingham and Val Tully won a tight final against local pair Andi Cleal and Hana Atkinson 13-10 in the final.

Consolage I was won by Ross Payne and Jake Romeril and Consolage II was won by Jane Langlois and Ivan Ferguson.

Triples

Alan Oliviera, Jake Romeril and Ross Payne have won the Guernsey Open Triples. In the final they beat fellow Jersey team Geoffroy Buffetrille, Callum Stewart and Andrew Bellamy-Burt. Ross won the game with a long distance fire which ended theee full days of pétanque.

In the Semi finals, Alan, Jake and Ross beat the Pétanque Events team of Clive, Migs and Clare. In the other semi final, Geoffroy, Callum and Andrew came through 13-12 against the local team of Craig Allen, Fred Wallnofer and Dan Le Sauvage.

The Plate was won by another Guernsey team: Seb Renaud, Delphine Renaud and Sean Farrell, with Sean picking up his first major trophy.

Consolage I was won by Andy Fisher, Graham Lewis and Alex Stewart.

Consolage II was a popular win for long time supporter of the Guernsey Open, Terry Basson from Bath, playing with his team mates Chris and Di Baross.

A copy of the entry form can be downloaded here:

2024 Summary

The Guernsey Open Triples has ben won by Pétanque Events 2, comprising Migs Trimingham, Clare Revill and Clive de Silva. They won all of their group games before overcoming Gary Cowburn, Wendy Ritzema and Dave Allen in a long semi final.

In the final they came across last year’s winners in Andy, Callum and Geoffroy. With the score at 12-10 to Pétanque Events, Geoffroy fired out the target boule to leave the score at 12-12 on the ground. Clare had the last boule at 9m and duly placed close under pressure, thus winning the match. They also scored a six point end earlier in the match. Congratulations to them!

In the Plate, Jimmy Ramsay, Joan Ramsay and Kathie Jehan beat Brandon Ogier, Alan Lahiffe and Fred Wallnofer in the final.

Andy & Lorna Limbrick playing with Mat Schofield won Consolage I.

Jean Stewart, Chris Le Gallais and Cassie Stewart-Le Gallais won Consolage II.

Doubles

Giles Cleal and Lee Holberry have won the Guernsey Open, beating Geoffroy Buffetrille and Andy Bellamy 13-12. At 12-12 in the final end with Guernsey holding, Geoffroy placed his last boule in front to win the point. Lee and Giles were left with three boules to hit it out. They kept the crowd on their toes by doing so with the last throw of the day. Congratulations to them!

Giles and Lee won all three of their group games to qualify for the main tournament. They were joined at this stage by fellow Guernsey based players Seb & Iain, Dan & Delphine, Shane and Keith and surprise package Mark and Dave Higgs.

The randomised draw, together with some strong performances from the Guernsey players in the group stages, resulted in Giles and Lee facing local competition en route to the final. They beat Seb & Iain in the last 16, Dan & Delphine in the quarter final and then Shane & Keith in the semi final. Dan & Delphine had previously claimed the scalp of top Jersey based team Callum and Alan earlier in the afternoon in what was one of the best results of the day, winning 13-1.

On the other side of the draw, strong Jersey pairing Gary Coburn and Wendy Ritzema knocked out Mark and David Higgs in the quarter final and then met Geoffroy and Andy in an all Jersey semi final. Geoffroy and Andy eased past them into the final which resulted in a Guernsey vs Jersey showpiece for the second year running.

In the Plate, Brandon Ogier and Toby Northern came back from 0-12 to win 13-12 against Jake Romeril and Ross Payne.

The Conslage I was taken by Chris Le Gallais and Cassie Stewart Le Gallais 13-11 with the Consolage II won 13-12 by Cricklade team Malcolm and Nigel. All four finals therefore went down to the wire.

Tony Northern has won the inaugural Guernsey Singles Open, beating team mate Callum Stewart 13-8 in the final.

The last eight comprised four Jersey players from Liberation: Toby, Callum, Geoffroy Buffetrille & Andy Bellamy. They were joined by three Pétanque Events players, two from the UK: Clare Revill and Clive de Silva, as well as locally based player Shane Brehaut. Craig Allen was the sole Guernsey Club representative.

In the quarter finals, Callum beat Clare, Geoffroy beat Andy, Toby beat Clive and Shane beat Craig. This left three Liberation players in the semis where Callum overcame Geoffroy. With Toby beating Shane, the final was an all Jersey affair.

The Liberation club also dominated the Plate with Ross Payne beating Alan Oliveira in the final.

Consolage III Winner

Consolage IV Winner

Doubles: Saturday at 9am

40 teams in ten groups of four. Teams from the same club are unlikely to play each other in the group stage. Three games in the morning to qualify for the afternoon tournaments. There will be a break after the third game which should be at around 12pm/12:30pm. The top team will qualify for the main tournament, second to the Plate, 3rd to the Consolage and 4th to Consolage II. Each team is therefore guaranteed four games and half of the teams will play at least five games. The winner of league A will play the winner of league B etc, so the entire day is pre drawn.

Triples: Saturday at 9am

24 teams in six groups of four. The format is the same as on Saturday.

2023 report

Guernsey takes a clean sweep of the four competitions in the 2023 Network Insurance & Financial Planning Open Doubles. Jersey takes the Triples, sponsored by The Music Box.

47 doubles teams and 27 triples teams contested the annual Guernsey Club de Petanque Open over a very hot and sunny weekend. The Guernsey contingent produced an excellent performance in the Doubles, ending up with a clean sweep of the four competitions. With teams from the UK, Jersey and even Alderney competing, the standard was high throughout the day. In the morning qualifying, five Guernsey teams made it through to the main tournament which comprised twelve teams in total. These teams were Craig Allen & Dan Le Savauge, Lee Holberry & Iain Haith, Seb Renaud & Brandon Ogier, Giles Cleal & Donal Kennedy and Fred Wallnofer & Dave Bartram. This represented the strongest performance from the home teams in recent memory.

In the afternoon, there were two leagues of six with the top team in each league qualifying for the final. In Division A, Craig and Dan met one of the strongest Jersey teams in Callum Stewart & Laurent Pellaton in the first round. After a slow start, they came back from 0-5 down to win 13-5, thus knocking out one of the favourites for the tournament. This match was followed by a tight game against Lee and Iain, which they lost 13-11. With the standard high and teams beating each other within the league, Craig and Dan needed to win their last game against another strong Jersey team by a large points difference. Following some high quality shooting from Dan and aggressive play by both players, they duly won the match 13-4 which meant that they won the league. In Division B, Neil Selby and James Gennoe from Jersey were the only team to win all of their games, meaning that they also qualified for the final. In doing so, they beat Fred and Dave, who ended up in second place in their league with a very creditable performance over the day, coming joint third overall.

The final was a tight affair with the score at just 2-1 after six ends. In many ways, Craig and Dan were holding on at the start, having to cope with some excellent shooting from Neil. They then managed to eke out a 3-2 lead before a terrible end when they placed four boules long. Dan then fired the one Jersey boule out of desperation and Craig then placed his final boule right on the cochonnet. The Jersey team subsequently moved the cochonnet by mistake to the back boules which resulted in three points for Craig and Dan and a huge swing in momentum. In the next end, Craig fired out the one remaining Jersey boule for another three points, taking them to 9-2. Neil and James then came back to 9-9 (including a 5 point end) before Craig and Dan closed out the match, largely through some relentless close placing with a 13-9 victory.

Keith Priaulx and Shane Brehaut overcame the disappointment of losing out in the morning to take home the Da Nello Plate. In more good news for Guernsey, Vikki Le Poidevin and Margaret Allen took home the Consolage 1 trophy and Jo Rivers and Ivan Ferguson took home Consolage 2. This meant that Guernsey enjoyed a clean sweep of all four competitions plus filling up half of the top six spots in the main tournament.

In the Triples , Craig and Dan teamed up with Giles Cleal. Whilst their standards never reached the heights of the Doubles, they once again found themselves in the final after a similar format and some battling performances against UK, Jersey and Guernsey opposition. This time, they faced another high quality Jersey team in Geoffroy Buffetrille, Andrew Bellamy-Burt and Callum Stewart. Geoffroy in particular played with an extremely high standard, shooting almost every boule. The Jersey team ran out convincing winners 13-3, with a superb shot to shoot the cochonnet on the final end to seal the victory.

Well done to Seb Renaud and Dave Allen who led a team of volunteers to organise the tournaments and to manage the scoring and the umpiring over the weekend.

Craig Allen and Dan Le Sauvage with the Network Insurance & Financial Planning trophy following a 13-9 victory in the final

Keith Priaulx and Shane Brehaut winners of the Da Nello’s Plate.

Margaret Allen & Vikki Le Poidevin with the Consolage 1.

Jo Rivers and Ivan Ferguson with the Consolage 2.

Geoffroy, Andrew and Callum with the Guernsey flag after their Music Box Triples win.

Giles, Dan and Craig in second place.

The triples finalists.

The summary of the Guernsey Open 2022 is here:

Set over two days, the Doubles were on Saturday 10 September and the Triples were on Sunday 11 September. Here is the report:

Major honours shared between Guernsey and Jersey at the 2022 Guernsey Pétanque Open

Thirty-two doubles teams and twenty triples teams from the UK, Jersey and Guernsey contested the annual Guernsey Pétanque Open which returned last weekend after a two year covid enforced break. The major honours over the weekend were shared with a Jersey team winning the Doubles and a Guernsey team winning the Triples over two days of hard fought matches.

In the Doubles, after the morning qualifying groups, eight teams remained in the main tournament, led by three teams from Jersey and three teams from Pétanque Events in the UK. Not to be outdone, two local teams also made the last eight: Andi Cleal with Hana Atkinson in one division and Craig Allen with Rob Tulie in the other division. Cleal and Atkinson played well throughout the day, but did not manage to post additional victories in a tough pool, headed by the eventual winners Frank & Bean. They missed out by the narrowest of margins 13-12 against a Pétanque Events team and had their chances to win. Frank & Bean (Geoffroy Buffetrille and Matt Buesnel) won all of their matches and therefore topped their group ahead of Pétanque Events 3.

Allen and Tulie fared better, narrowly beating a strong Jersey team Callum Stuart and Andrew Bellamy-Burt in their first afternoon match before succumbing 13-11 to another experienced Pétanque Events team, despite having led throughout most of the match. Whilst the Guernsey team still had an outside chance of topping the group going into the final match, they were well beaten by a strong Jersey team Matt Pinel and Laurent Pellaton in the final round, losing 13-8, but received the consolation prize of being the top local team in the Doubles. With Pinel and Pellaton also having beaten their Jersey team mates Stuart and Bellamy-Burt, they remained undefeated in the afternoon and topped their group.

The final was therefore contested by two Jersey teams, with Geoffroy Buffetrille and Matt Buesnel beating their local rivals Matt Pinel and Laurent Pellaton 13-6 in The Network Insurance final which went on until the early evening. It was clear that these were the best two teams over the day and their standard was markedly ahead of the teams from the UK and Guernsey. With several of the top local players missing the Doubles due to prior commitments,  they will have to work hard to compete with this Jersey based contingent in future competitions.

The Plate was another all Jersey affair. In the end, it was won by All By Myself, (Neil Selby and James Gennoe) beating Country Boys (Michael Cotillard and Darren Le Brun) in the final. Guernsey took the Consolage One with Fred Wallnofer and Dave Bartram making up for a poor morning with some good play in the afternoon. Consolage 2 was won by Pétanque Events 7 (James Kirkbride and Peter Le Cheminant) which was a mixed UK and Guernsey team.

The Triples on Sunday was a different affair, with two Guernsey teams performing well from the outset. Having missed the Doubles due to a prior commitment, Shane Brehaut was keen to make his mark and he was joined by two of his long standing partners, Ian Haith and Lee Holberry. The strongest local trio on paper duly delivered, winning their first three matches to take them to the semi-final.  Another local team performed equally as well with Vikki le Poidevin, Jim Ramsay and Joan Ramsay also winning their first three matches. In the semi-finals, Brehaut, Haith and Holberry defeated a very experienced Pétanque Events female team, but Le Poidevin, Ramsay and Ramsay succumbed to a strong Jersey trio whose team members had also performed well on the previous day.

This led to a Guernsey vs Jersey showpiece final with the best two teams on the day up against each other in a game of high standards.  After another fairly late finish, the Guernsey team ended up victorious, winning 13-7 after some consistently good play from Haith and Holberry in particular. In doing so, they took home the Doyle Motors trophy, meaning that Guernsey and Jersey shared the two major prizes over the weekend.

Here are the results:

The Saturday Doubles was kindly sponsored by

Our winning team from Jersey: Geoffroy Buffetrille and Matt Buesnel.

Consolage 1 Winners from Guernsey: Fred Wallnofer and Dave Bartram.

Team names for the Doubles.

The Sunday Triples was kindly sponsored by

Here are the winners of the Triples:

Our 2022 Triples Winners: Ian Haith, Lee Hollberry and Shane Brehaut

Second Place went to Jersey. Callum Stuart, Matt Pinel and Andrew Bellamy-Burt

Third Place went to the UK

Fourth place went to Guernsey. Jim Ramsay, Joan Ramsay and Vikki Le Poidevin.