The World Croquet Federation are running a week course in coaching and refereeing in spring 2013 near Brighton, England. This course can be subsidised by the WCF and by the CAI. Please consider attending this course to increase the number of qualified officials available to the CAI.

On 6th & 7th October Waterville Lake Croquet Society held their first Tournament to celebrate the official opening of the club. This is the report, with photos, of the weekend from Marion O'Neill of the local club.

Robert Barklie won the Inaugural Open Golf Croquet weekend on 6th and 7th October, beating Simon Williams 6-7, 7-5, 7-4. Their contrasting styles produced a very entertaining final.

The Irish team selected for the above event is:
Ed CUNNINGHAM, Evan NEWELL, Patsy FITZGERALD, Fred ROGERSON, Simon WILLIAMS, Jack CLINGAN (Reserve).

The draw for the two blocks and Team labels is as follows:

European Croquet Championships 2012

Andrew Johnston from Newcastle Co. Wicklow rounded off an excellent season on the croquet lawns with a memorable win in the final of the European Championships.

Waterville Lake Croquet Society is up and running.
There is one brand new lawn and another lawn which is a converted putting green and they are having the Official Launch and first competitive Golf Croquet tournament on 6th/7th October.
Here are some photographs of play on these lawns during the summer ( in spite of very bad weather at times.)

 

 

 

Just look at those views!

Carrickmines , 1st-2nd September, 2012

This year’s match was held at Carrickmines (by kind permission of the Club) on 1st/2nd September, the first sunny weekend for a long time. The format consists of 15 contests (3 doubles and 12 singles – all best of 3 games). GB won the match 8:5

Gerard has written a very interesting daily diary of the recent Irish Open Championships. It gives an insight into the various levels of competition and it sounds like it was a really enjoyable week which I, for one, am sorry that I missed.
Click here for The Dairy of the Irish Open