What a show! In my eight or so years of playing American 6-Wicket, I have never seen a player finish a game with a triple peel, and yet this past weekend, Matthew Essick finished three of his last four games with a triple. In the semi-final match against Zack Watson, Matthew won both games by scoring all of the hoops with his second ball while peeling (scoring his partner ball) through the last three hoops and then pegging both balls out on the center stake winning 26tp-0 and 26tp-13. Essick did the same in one of his games in the finals against current American 6-Wicket National Champion, Randy Cardo, winning 26tp-5 and 26-0.
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New Pro Croquet Tour: PCA
What do you get when you have a group of top players sitting courtside at a recent Nationals in lovely Palm Springs, asking themselves, “What’s next? What else can we do for this fascinating sport of ours?” You get the Professional Croquet Association (PCA) and ideas for a series of events called the “PCA Tour.”
Knowing that the PCA would be a complement to the USCA rather than a competitor, its primary goals include the development of exciting, newsworthy, sponsored events in competitive croquet, and to create an opportunity for competitors to earn money playing the game.
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