THE LAWS OF ASSOCIATION CROQUET

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PART 2 - Ordinary Singles Play - B. General Laws of Play

14. HOOP POINT

(a) Subject to Law 18(a)(1) , a ball scores a hoop point by passing through the correct hoop in the order and in the direction shown in Diagram 1. This is also known as running a hoop in order.

(b) The front of a hoop as it is approached by a ball about to run it in order is known as the playing side and the back as the non-playing side. The whole of the ball does not have to pass through the whole of the hoop to score a hoop point because

(1) a ball begins to run a hoop only when the front of the ball can be touched by a straight edge raised vertically against the non-playing side; and
(2) a ball completes the running of a hoop if it comes to rest (see Law 22 ) in a position in which the back of the ball cannot be touched by a straight edge raised vertically against the playing side.
(c) A ball may complete the running of a hoop in two or more turns, but, if it becomes a ball in hand, it must begin to run the hoop afresh.

(d) If a ball from which the striker is taking croquet lies within the jaws of the hoop next in order for the striker's ball, the striker's ball may run that hoop in the croquet stroke provided that it has not begun to run the hoop (see (b)(1) above) when placed in the actual position from which the striker will take croquet.

(e) if the striker's ball causes another ball to score a hoop point, that other ball is said to be peeled through the hoop.


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