Welcome to Bath Croquet Club!
Croquet is a fascinating game played by men and women of all ages. It is a summer sport played outdoors on a grass court the size of two tennis courts. It is a sport which successfully combines ball skills, tactics, sociability and excitement.
Bath Croquet Club has 4 full sized lawns and is based in the centre of Bath on the Recreation Ground, opposite Bath Rugby. For further information please contact Daniel Mills at croquetdan*hotmail.com (replace * with @)
Bath’s first venture into the National Golf Croquet Inter-Club Championship ended in defeat away to Phyllis Court (near Henley-on-Thames) on Saturday 20 April 2013. After dominating the morning’s three matches, and looking favourites to go into lunch 3-0 up, unfortunately two of the matches swung back in Phyllis Court’s favour with one match lost on
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A Bath Association Croquet team captained by Paul Francis played in Division One of the South West Federation Short Croquet weekend at Nailsea on Sunday 14 April 2013. Unfortunately one team member had to drop out at short notice and despite best efforts an extra player couldn’t be found which meant 4 games out of
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After the recent difficulties in managing the President’s Cup it looked as though the club’s yearly Association Croquet Progressive Doubles competition (Saturday 29 September 2012) was developing into similar chaos as a result of three people withdrawing at short notice. One of those, having signed up to play, was not even contactable by phone, mobile or
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Bath met Cornwall on neutral ground at Nailsea on Sunday 16 September. Both teams had recorded impressive victories in their semi-finals and so a close match was expected. We were to be proved right, at lunch Bath were just 2-1 ahead with Ian Morrison and Harry Dodge recording wins in the singles. Timothy Cantell and
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Thursday 6 September, Intermediate League Semi-Final – unbeaten in the League so far, a beautiful day in the magnificent setting of Dyffryn House and Gardens, excellent lawns, (tedious journey into foreign lands apart) what could possibly go wrong? Well, not much as it happened. By lunchtime, Bath were 3-0 up. As so commonly happens in
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