Happy Holidays to the global croquet community! Here at Croquet Network and Goodwin World Media, we hope you have the chance to spend time with family and those important to you. Starting with Thanksgiving in the U.S., this is always a wonderful time of year to look forward to events with friends and family and do some reflection as well. With that in mind, Croquet Network is pleased to present the most-read articles over the past year to showcase some of the top moments for the sport in 2025.
Read MoreGolf Croquet World Team Championships 2025: Tiers 2 and 3
The 2025 Golf Croquet World Team Championships for Tiers 2 and 3 brought twelve nations to the Sussex County Croquet Club in Southwick, England, delivering a week of high-level play, tactical battles, and international breakthroughs during August 5-10, 2025. Sweden claimed the Tier 2 title and a return to Tier 1, while Canada fielded a full national team for the first time (Adam Barr, John Richardson, Amr Hamdy and Hesham Elzoghby) and made an immediate impact with a silver-medal run. All four of the players came from the North Toronto Croquet Club.
Read More2025 Croquet News Volume 2: Team USA’S HISTORIC WIN
The Summer 2025 Digital Edition of the USCA’s Croquet News is here! This historic issue celebrates Team USA’s unforgettable triumph at the WCF Golf Croquet World Team Championship — marking the country’s first-ever team title in international croquet. Also featured is full coverage of the WCF Under 21 Golf Croquet World Championship hosted in April at the Sarasota County Croquet Club, where the next generation of global talent took center stage.
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Golf Croquet World Champions: USA Wins Early 7-0
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.
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