Morning Coffee: A New U.S. Golf Croquet Champion

Visit the storeJust in time for the holidays, Issue #12 of Croquet Network Magazine has mailed and should have hit most North American mailboxes over the weekend. It's a good one featuring an in-depth interview with new GC World Champion Mark McInerney that you won't want to miss. You'll also get a look at Jeff Soo as he is our player profile for the issue. Eric Sawyer also allowed a reprint of his article on the benefits of GC as sort of keeping with the theme of the issue. If you are not a subscriber, you can order a single copy or PDF download here. In other news around the world of croquet ...

LAMM IS U.S. GC CHAMP: Rich Lamm claimed the 2011 USCA Golf Croquet Championship after defeating Danny Huneycutt in yesterday's singles final in Rancho Mirage, California. Eric Sawyer also agreed  to let me publish his daily e-mail reports on the event and you can check them out here--
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U.S. WORLD SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP ROSTER: The USCA has announced seven players for the WCF World Association Championship to be held in Adelaide, Australia April 28 to May 6--
http://croquet.ning.com/forum/topics/u-s-allocations-for-2012-wcf-world-championship

SPECIAL OLYMPICS AND GC: Croquet World Online has a front page feature on a Special Olympics golf croquet event held in Rhode Island--
http://croquetworld.com/Game/Specialolympics.asp

VICTORIAN GC EVENT: Kevin Beard won the recent Victorian Golf Croquet Championship held in Cairnlea. Final standings--
http://croquet.ning.com/forum/topics/beard-wins-victorian-gc-event

NOVEMBER MEMBER OF THE MONTH: Billy Bob Breeden was the November Overdrive Member of the Month winner and he'll be choosing an item ($25 and under) from the CNM Cafepress Store as his prize. December is a new month and a whole new contest is now under way for our top member in December. All activity on the Overdrive site counts toward your membership ranking and our previous winners (Billy Bob and Matt Smith) are not eligible for the member prize for one year. Join the Croquet Network Overdrive site here--
http://croquet.ning.com