The International Open Golf Croquet Championship
held at the beginning of June

Ramsgate Croquet Club's 1st International Golf Croquet Championship in 2000 proved so successful in that we were able to continue to attract World Champions with our winning formula of good organization, excellent lawns, good food and a friendly welcome for players and spectators alike each year right through to 2003.

As a venture to introduce a wider public to the delights of Croquet at the time of the millennium we decided to stage an International Golf Croquet Tournament, not only would it attract champions from all over the world - we hoped - but would be more easily followed by spectators as the rules are less complicated than for Association Croquet. We were lucky enough to get sponsors and coverage by Meridian Television and - most importantly - World Champions!
Since then we have been going from strength to strength with more sponsorship, more television coverage with the BBC and, in 2003, World Champions from both games as finalists.

The Club continues to hold their Golf Croquet Championship and still attracts players from all over the United Kingdom and the Continent as well as some playing visitors from around the world. In June 2006 twenty players enjoyed splended weather and first class croquet with the tournament won by David Openshaw. In 2007 Tim King took the honours beating Bill Arliss in a close fought final with Ramsgates own Shelia Prentice winning the Ladies Golf Handicap.

Reg Bamford and Khalid Younis in 2003 final
(photo by Quiller Barrett)

Ramsgate Croquet Club will be holding their Golf Croquet Championship the weekend of the 7th and 8th June 2008. The Club will this year also be holding a Ladies Golf Croquet Championship the weekend 28th and 29th June

Details of entrance fees, timetable and arrangement of matches for 2008 are available in the CA fixtures calendar or may be obtained early in 2008 by telephoning the Match Secretary. Cynthia Street (see contact details)

Admission for spectators is FREE and all members of the public are welcome, especially croquet players both old and young.

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