Association Croquet

Association Croquet is played at the Southern Highlands Croquet Club on Mondays from 10am to 12 noon, anyone interested in learning is welcome to attend.

Since Medieval times people have played games involving sticks, balls and hoops, but the game of croquet as we now know it started with a game called "crookey", similar to croquet, played at CastleBellingham on County Louth, Ireland, in 1834.  During the 1860's croquet became popular as a social pastime in England.  Sadly it's popularity waned although numbers of people playing croquet have been improving in recent years, especially with the advent of Golf Croquet.

Croquet (or Association Croquet or simply AC) has been described as "snooker on a lawn" as the main idea of the game is to build 'breaks' in order to score more than one hoop in a turn (unlike Golf Croquet).  A player may earn extra shots in two ways, being:

1. a single shot by scoring a hoop point (hitting their ball through the hoop) or
2. two extra shots by causing their ball to contact another ball - an action called a 'roquet'.  When a roquet is made, the player may pick up their ball and place it in contact with the roqueted ball.

If this all sounds a bit confusing, don't worry!  There is a small but committed Monday morning group who play AC who you would be very welcome to join.  The Club also runs Introductory AC Courses which give you a good grounding in the basics of the game.  Check Events on the website for details of the next course or contact the Club directly.

Tim Allen (Accredited Level 1 Association Croquet Coach)

From the Croquet NSW Newsletter

Well done Tim, with your mention in the Croquet NSW July newsletter.

Coaching

On Monday 27th July Gareth & Lance travelled from Sydney to deliver an AC clinic with our AC players, a delicious lunch was then shared by all.