We are delighted to confirm our dates for the 2024/25 season.
We are delighted to announce your 2022/23 Players' Player of the Season is England's Alex Kley!
Polling a huge 27.50% of the total votes, the majorities, front runner, indeed takes home the title. A fantastic 18 months, both on the Tour, and in other National & International events, Alex has had some great success.
Our huge congratulations to him, and to all the players nominated this season.
Our final 2022/23 ppots nominee is also our current player's player, Gary Mcnabb. A retention of his British Open title, his 5th, capped another very impressive season. Here's his season recap.
Our penultimate nominee is Mr consistent, Ian Hobson. Making the later stages in all 3 singles events, shows his class. Check his SMPT 2022/23 recap here
Our fifth of seven nominees is England's Peter Roberts. A maiden singles title and climbing to 2nd in the World rankings was topped by winning the Order of Merit trophy. Here's the run-down on his remarkable season.
Our 4th nominee this year is World No1 Mark Beattie. A third World Cup winners medal and yet another singles event win. Check out his story here.
Third on this year’s list for PPOTS is the rising star of Short Mat Bowls, England’s Alex Kley. His World Masters victory in Belfast, capped off an amazing 18 months. You can view his SMPT season highlights here.
Our second nominee is six time SMPT singles champion, Joe Beattie. An almost 90% win percentage, made this season, Joe’s most successful. Read his story here.
Our first nominee is World No5 Pauline Beattie. In the hunt for the Order of Merit title and of course, our first ladies singles winner. Here is her 2022/23 season recap.
It’s been a great first full season back following the pandemic and we hope you have enjoyed our events.
We're already looking ahead and can now reveal our event & date line-up for the 2023/24 season.
A big thankyou to everyone who supported our charity event in May.
The Friends of Essex Open Pairs is underway at Falcon Bowling & Social Club. You can follow updates over at Tournament Software.
Over the weekend we will be raising money for the Neonatal Unit at Broomfield Hospital. If you would like to donate please visit: https://www.gofundme.com/f/4kkru9.
The draw for the Friends of Essex Open Pairs 2022 has now been made. All proceeds from the weekend will be going to the Neonatal Unit at Broomfield Hospital.
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Mitchell Young to the directorship of the Short Mat Players Tour.
Whilst only a couple of events have been possible this season, we are delighted to announce dates for a full 2022/23 season. A welcome return to our World ranking singles events will of course be the main focus but we’ll have our usual team events mixed in too.
Following recent discussions between the SMPT directorship and consultations with venues used by the SMPT, a decision has been made to alter some of the events for the 2021/22 season.
As we say hello to a New Year with the hope of returning to some kind of normality in the not too distant future, we are delighted to announce the provisional dates for the 2021/22 SMPT season.
We stress that these dates remain provisional at this moment in time, especially due to the current situation and we shall be in constant contact with the venues and liaising directly with them as this fluid situation changes.