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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 origination, excellent lawns, good food and a friendly welcome for players and spectators alike each year 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 - more 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 andf the Continent as well as 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. Ramsgate Croquet will be holding their Golf Croquet
Championship the weekend
Details of entrance fees, timetable and arrangement of matches for 2008 will be available in the CA fixtures calendar or may be obtained early in 2008 by telephoning the Match Secretary
Admission for spectators is FREE and all members of the public are welcome, especially croquet players both old and young.
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