Club History
The LX Club was founded in 1995 as the result of suggestions made by continental teams. Following an invitation received from France to participate in a tournament for over-60s in Lille, a team was raised which subsequently won the tournament. In the process an inaugural meeting of the Club was held at the Hotel d'Eatapes in Lille on Saturday, 4th of February 1995 with thirteen players present. It was decided that the Club would be known as the LX Hockey Club, England but generally shortened to the LX Club. In September 2003 the LX Club was sanctioned by England Hockey to select an official England Over 60 team to be called England Grand Masters. An England Great Grand Masters (Over 65) team was established the following year. In 2009 England Hockey took over the selection of England Grand Master teams, including Senior Grand Masters (over 70's) but we are proud the vast majority of the players still come from the LX Club membership

The Ashes

During the LX International Tournament at Canterbury a wooden hockey stick was burnt and the ashes deposited in a suitable vessel. Since then, the LX Club now replaced by the England Grand Masters have regularly played the Australian Grand Masters for ‘The Ashes’. At the 2006 World Cup in Leverkusen England retained the Ashes and LX also won the trophy presented by Australia and now played for between the two B teams.

The European Cup and Trophy

The first European Trophy competition for over 60s teams was held in Amsterdam in 2000 and annually after that. In these early years not all the teams were necessarily National teams (e.g. the Alliance and LX Red - a second selected team after England). In 2005 the competition was extended to over 65s teams and in 2006 it was decided to split the tournament into two categories - one for National first teams and the second category for second selected teams including the Alliance and LX Reds. In June 2007 the LX Club hosted the first official Grand Masters European Cup for National Teams with a Tournament Trophy competition for second selected teams running concurrently. The Grand Masters European Cup is now held every two years viz: 2009, 2011 and so on. In the intervening year there is now held a European Trophy competition open to all teams. For instance in 2010 at Braxgata in Belgium the LX club entered 6 teams. (See European Cup Results)

The World Cup

In May 1998 the LX Club 'A' team won the World Cup for over 60s players in Utrecht, beating the Dutch in the final. The next World Cup was held in Kuala Lumpur in March 2002, and the newly created KPMG World Cup trophy was won by Germany. Since then the World Cup has been held every two years. In 2006 the Tournament like the European Cup was split into two categories- one for National First Teams including for the first time National over 65s teams and the second category for second selected teams including the Alliance and LX Reds. The World Cup at Cape Town in 2010 included for the first time over 70s National teams. (See World Cup Results)