Reynolds, a 4 handicapper, is the most experienced and has world champs experience after pairing with club mate Sandra Bathgate in Tauranga in 2011. Te Mata Club member Erica Stephens was the other Bay competitor.
She competed at the 2012 Australian Open in Melbourne with Kermode "where the weather was awful but they had wonderful facilities".
This time last year a dodgy knee gave Reynolds some grief but an orthopaedic surgeon came to her rescue.
"He gave me a new knee and my handicap has improved. I wouldn't have gone to Cairo with a dodgy knee."
She found traction with the sport - a faster, shorter offspring of croquet - when a fellow midwife one day asked her to play.
"I enjoy the camaraderie, competitiveness and winning," says Reynolds who is mindful men hit the ball harder than women although Egyptian women are no slouches, either. "Results show the men are ranked higher than women because of their physical ability," she says although the women feel physical attributes can become a handicap without controlled aggression.
An original member of Marewa club when it started in 1999, Reynolds' highlight at the last world champs was beating a highly-ranked Egyptian.
Powis is in her 10th season, trying to keep a leash on her four handicap while recovering from a shoulder injury. The baby of the Bay delegation at 64, she caught an advertisement on Marewa club's open day in the newspaper.
"I live only five minutes walk from the club but I arrived late that day so they shoved a mallet in my hand and asked me to come back another day. I did and never looked back.
"If someone told me I'd play a sport I love so much now under a New Zealand flag I'd have laughed at them," says the self-confessed couch potato who now plays six days a week.
Powis has two limited national singles handicap titles and a North Island grade one in which Reynolds was a runner-up.
Kermode, a two handicapper, started playing in Manawatu seven years ago "by accident".
"It was a six-week business house competition and someone asked me to fill in so by the end of it I joined up."
The 77-year-old, who has a North Island grade title, settled in Napier to be close to her family after her husband died.
Kermode reckons golf croquet, which has enabled her to be part of a network at the club, is about tactics. "Fifty per cent is skills, 40 per cent tactics and the rest is outright war and luck."
The late bloomer wishes she had started playing much earlier. "I left my run too late," says Kermode, partial to singles matches because failure leads to self-cross examination.
The trio thanked Marewa club for a farewell morning tea where they received a goody bag "full of essentials and a small amount of cash".
"Croquet Hawke's Bay also helped us," says Powis who will enjoy visiting the Pyramids, the sound and light show there and the recently re-opened Sphinx of Giza with Reynolds and Kermode before leaving the pair to visit her relatives in England.
