They allow for some variations and also for added complexity so that you can move from social garden croquet to more serious croquet. 2. The court A backyard croquet court doesnt have to be a perfectly manicured lawn, but short grass provides the best playing surface. If you have room, a...
The lawn is normally 17.5m by 14m but for the casual player any decent sized, relatively smooth grass area will suffice. At croquet clubs where the grass is shorter and therefore faster a standard lawn may be as big as 32m x 25.6m. The important thing is that the proportions are kept ...
An important milestone in the history of tennis was the decision of theAll England Croquet Clubto set aside one of its lawns atWimbledonfor tennis, which soon proved so popular that the club changed its name to the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club. In 1877 the club decided to hold...
Croquet: its principles and rules, with explanations and illustrations, for the lawn and parlow.A. pseud. Rover