The last twenty years has seen international teams, world class tournaments and the national rankings dominated by players who started playing as teenagers.

It is our ambition that our thriving junior section will produce players to compete at this high standard: we are well on our way there.

Juniors are first introduced to Golf Croquet to learn and practice the basics of hitting the ball straight and running hoops. Once these essentials have been mastered, they progress rapidly to Association Croquet, a game in which strategy becomes as important as playing the strokes.

Once a basic competence is achieved, junior players are encouraged to enter Club tournaments. Some of our present junior members have reached the finals of some events.

James Goodbun is one of our star juniors, joining the Club when nine years old in 2001 and in his first year winning the Junior Tournament. James has progressed by winning Club golf doubles competitions two years running and in 2008 four of the Club Members competitions beating seasoned players. At the Clubs CA Golf Croquet Championship James entered playing against low handicap players and showing great character when matched against Reg Bamford in his first pool match. James in 2008 was invited to play in the Inter Counties Golf Tournament and in the All England Golf Croquet Championship finished as runner up, the highest any Ramsgate member has achieved.
In 2009 representing the Uk in the under 21 World Championship in Cairo, reaching the 1/4 finals

Then there are the Rice boys, Andrew (17) started playing croquet 7 years ago following a visit to the Club with the Cubs. He was hooked and started attending the Junior Coaching sessions on Saturday mornings. He started by learning Golf Croquet but soon found out about Association Croquet and has won two Club association competitions with adult partners and two on his own. His younger brother, Oliver (13) desperately waited for his 10th birthday so that he could follow in Andrew's footsteps and started playing Golf Croquet two years ago. He is full of enthusiasm and loves coaching the younger members, or anyone else that he can.

The junior section meets, at the Club, for coaching from nationally qualified coaches on Saturday mornings from 10.00am until 12.00pm. Our current membership is 10 - 12 covering an age range from 11-17 years. More juniors, both boys and girls are welcome.

If you would like to learn more about the clubs junior section then contact :-

George Jones 01843 836996