Croquet is typically a friendly game, a backyard competition, a diversion to be pulled out after burgers and before volleyball. But once one player's ball bumps into another's, it's time to whack ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The game is a race around the circuit of hoops in the order and directions shown in the diagram above. The Blue and Black balls play against the Red and Yellow balls. The first side to get both of ...

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 ...

The game of croquet is making a remarkable comeback as an ideal sport for the pandemic. Clubs across the country have seen the number of new members signing up for beginners courses double. And these ...