The final day of the 2025 PFC Mallets Golf Croquet WTC brought some weather and an early finish to the Openshaw Finals test as Team USA delivered the one win needed in their battle with Egypt in the first doubles match of the day. U.S. captain Ben Rothman and current GC World Champion Blake Fields paired up again to square off against Egypt’s Mohamed Nasr and Mohamed Taha. All went according to plan as Rothman and Fields picked up a 7-4 win in game one to get the day off on the right foot.
Read More2025 PFC Mallets Golf Croquet WTC Final Day
Team USA heads into the final day with a 6-0 test lead over Egypt and will be looking for one match win today to claim their first team croquet world championship. The action starts at approximately 4:00 p.m. Eastern time today at the Northern Tasmanian Croquet Centre in St. Leonards, Tasmania.
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Team USA’s Tom Balding Gets a Score Against Egypt
Relentless US Team Bolts to 6-0 Lead: 2025 GCWTC
An eagerly anticipated final at the 2025 PFC Mallets Golf Croquet World Teams Championship was set to pit the legendary Egyptian squad against America’s new wave of GC stars in what was sure to be an epic back-and-forth battle. But Team USA had something a little different mind as they clawed and dazzled their way to a 6-0 lead on the lawns at the Northern Tasmanian Croquet Centre in St. Leonards, Tasmania.
Read More2025 Golf Croquet WTC Moves To Playoffs
After three days of play, the PFC Mallets Golf Croquet World Team Championship has concluded the block phase with Australia and the USA topping their respective blocks with 3-0 records. The event is being held at the Northern Tasmanian Croquet Centre in St. Leonards, Tasmania, and will now see Australia square off against Egypt in one semifinal, while Team USA will face New Zealand.
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2022 Golf Croquet World Champion Matthew Essick in play at this year’s AC World Championship. Photo by Andrew Moss.
Golf Croquet Celebrates 90 Years
For long-time croquet enthusiasts, golf croquet seems like a relatively new sensation and certainly, the rapid world growth that tracks back roughly to the start of this century creates an aura of a game that is brand new. However, Chris Williams, Archivist for Croquet England, says the birth of the popular croquet version was documented in an issue of the Croquet Gazette that says the rules for Golf Croquet had been approved and were to “be embodied in the Laws of Croquet and Regulations for Official Tournaments and C.A. Year Book for 1934” during a Council meeting held on December 14, 1933.
Read MoreUSCA Golf Croquet Selection Information
The USCA has announced the following information for golf croquet selection with several world events on deck for 2024 and 2025. The WCF has three GC world championships scheduled for late 2024 and early 2025, two of which are slated to be held in the U.S.
Read MoreMexico Claims Golf Croquet Tier 3 Title
Mexico claimed the Tier 3 WCF World Team Tier 3 Golf Croquet Championship title with a 2-0-1 match record at an event held July 20-23, 2022 at the Guildford & Godalming Croquet Club in the UK. Mexico, Portugal and the Czech Republic fielded full teams while the Iran team had three members unable to travel due to late arriving VISAs. However, to keep the four-team format, Iran was allowed to participate with the one remaining member (Omied Hallam) and three players selected from the host Guildford & Goldaming Club.
Read MoreSpain Wins the 2020 Tier 2 World Team GC Championships
Spain defeated Wales 10-3 to claim the 2020 WCF World Team GC Championship Tier 2 title. The 2020 event was held October 11-16, 2021 in Cádiz, Spain, at the headquarters of Real Club de Golf VISTA HERMOSA, SHERRY CROQUET and the Real Club de Golf Novo SANCTI PETRI.
It was the first WCF tournament held since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic began and was contested by Wales, Switzerland, Latvia, Norway, Scotland, Spain and Canada (although only two players were able to attend) and an eighth Select Team that played friendly matches to help the schedule.
Read More2016 USCA Croquet News Volume 2, Web Edition
The 2016 Volume 2 issue of the USCA's Croquet News magazine delivered to the mailhouse last week and should be arriving in member's mailboxes this month. The web edition PDF is also now available to USCA members on the magazine page of the USCA website (log in required).
It was quite a line-up of croquet events that took place since the last edition of the magazine as the AC World Championships were held in April, followed by the GC World Team Championship, the 9-Wicket National Championship, the Solomon Trophy test and the surprise of the summer as Ben Rothman became the first American to win the British Open singles title (check out the list of winners for the Open for some perspective on that accomplishment).
In addition, five of the six USCA Regionals were held over the Spring/Summer and we squeezed them all in. It's a jam-packed issue and we hope you enjoy it ... here's the full run-down of articles:
- USCA Hosts Epic AC Worlds
- 2016 US Hall of Fame Inductees: Damon Bidencope and Bert Myer
- 2016 National 9 Wicket Championship
- 2016 Northeast Regional Tournament
- 2016 Mid-Atlantic Regional Tournament
- 2016 Western Regional Tournament
- 2016 Midwest Regional Tournament
- 2016 Southeast Regional Tournament
- Club Profile: Pasadena Croquet Club
- Member Profile: Ben Rothman
- Hydration article from Russ Dilley
- Bob and Ted On Tactics: Pivot Ball
Video: 2016 WCF Golf Croquet WTC Final Day
From Nick Cheyne's YouTube Channel -- "Shots of the final day for the GC World Champs in order.
Tried to capture the majority of the final matches."
Read MoreTried to capture the majority of the final matches."