There’s your grandma’s backyard croquet, and then there’s the game as it’s played by the William & Mary Croquet Club, champion of the 2012 United States Croquet Association Collegiate Division. It’s ...

When Rancho Mirage's Blake Fields stepped on to the lawn at the USCA Croquet Nationals in North Carolina in late September, he drew a lot of confused looks from the other competitors warming up for ...

Croquet is a popular sport played at backyard garden parties, but it also has a competitive side. The Sarasota County Croquet Club has held competitions in the area for more than 20 years, and the ...

VENICE — The Sarasota County Croquet Club will host the prestigious Association Laws National Championship on March 18-24 at the Sarasota County Croquet Club at Wellfield Park. The tournament, ...

On the surface, this year’s Women’s Golf Croquet Championship on the Sussex coast seemed the least likely setting for a scandal. As befitting the game’s image as the most genteel of English summer ...

1. Croquet is believed to have its origins in 17th-century palle-maille, a game often played in London’s Pall Mall. It has been said that only tobacco smoke spread faster through the British Empire.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Women’s World Golf Croquet Championship will be held in England in August and the First Coast will be well represented. Ponte Vedra’s Debbie Davidoff and Helen Covington will ...

The All England Club still have croquet attached to their official title, but the hoop and mallet equivalent of the Wimbledon final next Sunday won't have quite the mano a mano intensity of Nadal ...

It is not one of those lesser-known sports like curling or synchronized swimming that automatically inspires a corny punch line. "It brings a smile to everyone's face because everyone seems to have ...

Very calmly, attired in all-white clothing, slowly but deliberately, she whacked her opponent’s ball across the field. Victory, at a historic club in New Jersey. Founded in 1957, the Green Gables ...