Gentlemen, it seems, do not bash opponents’ croquet balls into the creek. At least not at the National Croquet Championships being played today and tomorrow at the Puget Sound Croquet Club in Kirkland ...

The lively sound of a wooden mallet connecting with a one-pound plastic ball sliced through the drone of the dozens of geese honking nearby at the edge of a creek. It was a postcard-perfect day. But ...

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Despite a rise in the sport's popularity, most players will have disappeared from the UK in just 22 years The Crazy Croquet lawn unveiled at Terminal 2 at Heathrow Airport, in a bid to revive the ...

It’s a Monday morning and a group of women, all dressed in white, are on the croquet court at BREC's City Park, mallets in hand. They are members of the Croquet Coquettes, a club within the Red Stick ...

AIKEN — Thirty croquet players from eight different states are coming to Aiken this weekend for an invitational tournament at the Green Boundary Club, including former national champion Bo Prillaman ...

The U.S. Croquet Association has named the Green Boundary Croquet Club as its Club of the Year for 2024. The Aiken-based croquet club earned the honor after fitting the criteria in several areas, ...

When I was growing up croquet was something we got served up at tea time as an alternative to mashed potato. The idea of striking a few balls round a manicured lawn with a wooden mallet was as alien ...

Dan Whited's shiny scarlet ball shoots downhill, slaloming between clumps of long, soggy grass in Seattle's Gas Works Park. Hitting the asphalt trail, it banks 90 degrees and hurtles toward Lake Union ...

Clad in various shades of white, the three men stood with mallets at their sides, the broad, close-cropped court in Roxbury Park spread out around them. They spoke a language known only to other ...

'Congratulations!" someone yelled to Lisa Egnash as she emerged from her St. Paul home last month. Egnash quickly realized the stranger thought her snazzy white dress meant she was about to get ...

Four years ago Robert Kingsley was driving by Olmsted Park when he suddenly spotted an oasis. To most passersby, the grassy open field that caught Kingsley’s attention only gets a second look when the ...