To celebrate the new year, Croquet Network is excited to present our Top Croquet Mallets For 2024 showcasing the world’s best croquet mallet makers. Purchasing a good quality croquet mallet that fits your playing style is one of the most challenging issues for croquet players face. Only a select few live near a location that offers a walk-in location where a player can try out a mallet. For the majority of players, a croquet mallet purchase consists of an exhaustive internet search and a bit of guesswork based on the available online photos.
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Croquet Network is pleased to present our Top 10 Croquet Mallet List For 2022. Purchasing a good quality croquet mallet that fits your playing style is one of the most challenging issues croquet players face. Croquet Network is happy to offer this list that has been crafted through a multipoint formula to direct mallet buyers to at least the most sought-after mallet makers. While a mallet choice is unique to every croquet player, there is also a good reason why so many players drift toward certain brands. With that, we present the following list of the top 10 croquet mallet manufacturers for 2022 and wish you the best of luck in your search.
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Croquet Website Directory Additions (February 2011)
The following websites have been added to the Croquet Network directories this month:
CLUBS AND ASSOCIATIONS
Belgium Croquet Federation
http://www.croquetb.org/
Chicago Croquet Club
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News Clips: Shane Botwin's Mallet Choice, NC Tactics and the Rothman Tour
Warning. The above video does feature a mallet to the head. For the most part though, I think it would be pretty tame by today's television standards. What's all the hubbub? You guessed it. Showtime's Weeds series finished it's most recent season by having young Shane Botwin kill off the latest criminal behind the criminal (Pilar) with a mallet. The timing was bizarre as I had been thinking about a plot for HBO's Entourage based around a celebrity pro-am golf croquet tourney (unfortunately, they just did a standard celebrity golf tourney -- trash talk while golfing is much like trash talking during an afternoon of coloring book fun with your four-year-old). Back to Weeds. The show had become pretty tiresome, but that certainly was a spicy cliffhanger. Give the props team an "F" though. It looks like your standard toy mallet and I believe the intent was to imply that the elitest residence would house some sort of real croquet equipment. It would have been more convincing if Shane would have swung a Fenwick Elliott. It's just on the edge though. One serious portrayal of real croquet on a major television show would do a lot of good.
I just discovered this tactical series on CroquetNC.org -- Moving Past the Improvement Plateau. Very useful and thus far there is a Part One and Part Two. Great illustrations.
Ben Rothman posted a Google map of croquet clubs he has visited over the past few years. If Rothman has attended your tournament or visited your club, I'd say that's a pretty good endorsement.