Welcome to my croquet website. I play Association Croquet and hope to achieve high UK and World rankings in my chosen sport, as well as show the world that 'Croquet is Cool!'. Please check back every now and then to see updates about croquet, my personal journey through training and tournaments and information about latest news and events.
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A bad year – What happened to my croquet?
Just a quick recap, this is my croquet story so far: Year 1 – I joined a croquet club, didn’t play much croquet, handicap started at 18 (the highest/ worst being 24), lost a bunch of games and ended up handicap 20. Year 2 – Mortified by worsening of handicap in year 1, practiced as …
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Mission to scratch
It is now the middle of November and the 2016 croquet season is now officially over. At the beginning of the season I set out a few goals, one of which was to improve so much that my handicap would become ‘scratch’, this being zero. Being ‘scratch’ means that a player can be considered an …
It’s a whole new adventure…
The Association Croquet Inter-County Championship 2016 *Counties for short* I had the privilege of playing for Somerset in the Counties. With over 160 croquet players over two locations, 22 counties were represented and I’ve never seen so much white clothing in my entire life all in one place. I’m pleased to report that despite me …