Backyard croquet players, here are 15 winning tips to make sure you dominate that casual backyard game of double-diamond cutthroat croquet (six players, one ball each).
1. Choose the mallet with the heaviest head and the longest shaft (adult-sized mallet shafts are roughly 36”).
Read MoreMartyn Selman sent in the following annoucement regarding an opportunity for an Association Croquet Referee Course in North America.
Support the game you love and learn the game in more depth by becoming an association croquet referee.
Mar 1–5 / Mission Hills Invitational / Mission Hills Country Club, Rancho Mirage, CA
Ron Hendry / 760-832-7681 / 760-567-6236 / croquetca@dc.rr.com / Ben Rothman, TD
Mar 3–6 / Charles Steuber Invitational / National Croquet Center, West Palm Beach, FL
Archie Peck / 561-818-6039 / archiepeck@aol.com
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Back to our normal Monday schedule and the highlight for me this week will be celebrating St. David's Day tomorrow with a bottle of two of Tomos Watkins at Llywellyn's. Now for your regularly scheduled croquet news ...
Stephens Mulliner took International Polo Club GC Invitational top prize of $5000 with a 2-0 victory over
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
http://www.chicagocroquetclub.org/
Most popular croquet groups on Facebook for February 2011:
Rank / Group / Likes / Last Month
01. I'm not posh, just jolly good at croquet - 58,327 (1)
02. Croquet (Wikipedia) - 7,463 (2)
CQnet StoreRegular croquet news seems trivial, but here is the Morning Coffee rundown. We're on a Tuesday schedule this week due to President's Day in the U.S. In an odd coincidence, this post is pretty much built over a week and there happened to be many croquet news items from New Zealand.
The WCF has now launched a dedicated Under-21 GC World Championship section of the main WCF website --