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17th Aug: Lincolnshire's Super Team take home the Inter-County Division 1 Trophy
11th Aug: Great Britain wins the Solomon Trophy 2025 [GB vs. USA Test]
31st Jul: England Victorious at GC Home Internationals 2025
23rd Jul: Liza Furnival won the Cheltenham C-Level GC event
19th Jul: Croquet England AC Open Championships
9th Jul: Dom Aarvold Claims First Championship Series Title at Nailsea ENSC Qualifier
30th Jun: Congratulations Reg Bamford!
28th Jun: Golf Croquet Open Doubles Champions 2025This area of the website provides easy access to news and information suitable for media news items and features. We hope the information you are looking for is here, and you are free to copy and use any information or pictures in this section of the website unless stated otherwise, except that there are restrictions on the use of photographs in the photo library - please see the copyright statements in that section.
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Latest Major Competition News and Results
- 17th Aug: Lincolnshire's Super Team take home the Inter-County Division 1 Trophy (GC - Championships)
- 31st Jul: GC English National Doubles Champions Crowned at Budleigh (GC - Championships)
- 31st Jul: England Victorious at GC Home Internationals 2025 (GC)
- 19th Jul: Croquet England AC Open Championships (AC - Championships)
- 9th Jul: Dom Aarvold Claims First Championship Series Title at Nailsea ENSC Qualifier (GC - Championships)
- 28th Jun: Golf Croquet Open Doubles Champions 2025 (GC - Championships)
Recent News
- Advance notice of Annual General Meeting
- Proposed changes to Croquet England's Constitution
- Election for new President of Croquet England
- 25th Aug: Phyllis Court lost to Nottingham 3-4 (23 Aug) (GC - Tier 3 Bowl)
- 22nd Aug: Robbie Dodds won the Tompkinson Shield (AC)
- 22nd Aug: Adrian Coward won the Sidmouth GC B-Level
- 22nd Aug: Graham Brooksbank won the Sidmouth GC C-Level
- 17th Aug: Lincolnshire's Super Team take home the Inter-County Division 1 Trophy (GC - Championships)
- 16th Aug: Phyllis Court lost to Bowdon 1-5 (15 Jun) (GC - Inter-Club)
- 15th Aug: Trustee elections
- 15th Aug: High Wycombe beat Bury 4-3 (AC - Mary Rose)
- 14th Aug: Bowdon Short Croquet (AC)
- 14th Aug: Cheltenham High Bisque (AC - Handicap)
- 12th Aug: Neil Adams won the Yorkshire White Rose (AC)
- 12th Aug: Andrew Grant won the Ashby GC B-Level
- 12th Aug: Liz Johnson won the Ashby GC D-Level
- 12th Aug: High Wycombe beat Newport 4-3 (25 Jul) (AC - Mary Rose)
- 12th Aug: Crake Valley beat Colchester 6-1 (GC - Federations Shield)
- 11th Aug: East Dorset beat High Wycombe 5-2 (AC - Longman Cup)
- 11th Aug: Great Britain wins the Solomon Trophy 2025 [GB vs. USA Test] (International)
- 6th Aug: Tim Russell won the Budleigh GC Open Series
- 4th Aug: Mark Simmerson won the Tyneside Advanced (AC)
- 2nd Aug: Nottingham lost to Bowdon 2-5 (AC - Inter-Club)
- 1st Aug: Hurlingham beat East Dorset 6-1 (AC - Mary Rose)
- 31st Jul: 2025 Students Championship (AC - Championships)
- 31st Jul: The 2025 GC Veterans Championship was won by Simon Carter (GC - Championships)
- 31st Jul: GC English National Doubles Champions Crowned at Budleigh (GC - Championships)
- 31st Jul: Watford AC Midweek B-Level Advanced (23 Jul) (AC)
- 31st Jul: England Victorious at GC Home Internationals 2025 (GC)
- 31st Jul: David Artingstall wins GC 'C' Level series Tournament at Bury (16 Jul)
- 28th Jul: Patricia Duke-Cox retires as President of Croquet England
- 28th Jul: Phyllis Court 2 beat Bromley 6-1 (19 Jul) (GC - Federations Shield)
- 27th Jul: Newport beat Ashby 7-0 (AC - Longman Cup)
- 27th Jul: High Wycombe beat Sussex County 4-3 (19 Jul) (AC - Longman Cup)
- 26th Jul: Bowdon lost to Bury 3-4 (25 Jul) (AC - Mary Rose)
- 26th Jul: Phyllis Court lost to East Dorset 3-4 (AC - Longman Cup)
- 26th Jul: Guildford beat Hamptworth 5-0 (25 Jul) (GC - Murphy Shield)
- 23rd Jul: AC Eights Selections (AC)
- 23rd Jul: Liza Furnival won the Cheltenham C-Level GC event
Coming Up
Where are the top players?
August
- 30-31: Surbiton The Golf Croquet Women's Open Championship
(GC)
September
- 4-7: Sidmouth AC First Eight (The President's Cup) (AC)
- 4-7: East Dorset AC Second Eight (The Chairman's Salver) (AC)
- 4-8: Cheltenham AC Third Eight (The Spencer Ell Cup) (AC)
- 4-8: Southport AC Fourth Eight (The Treasurer's Tankard) (AC)
- 6-7: Sussex County The Sussex Open Golf Croquet Championship (Open Series) (GC)
What's on?
August
- 23-26: Hunstanton 126th Annual (AC) Tournament (AC)
- 30-31: Watford Golf Croquet Open Series Tournament (GC)
- 26-27: Sussex County AC Annual Tournament (A, B & C-Class) (AC)
- 28-31: Cheltenham The AC Challenge and Gilbey (Handicap and Level-Play Singles) (AC)
- 30-31: Meadows AC Team Event - Scottish Croquet Association vs Croquet England (AC)
- 30-31: Nottingham Advanced Singles Weekend (AC) (AC)
- 30-31: Woking Autumn Advanced (AC) (AC)
September
- 6-7: Wrest Park IPDG GC Elite and Development Squad Mentored Match Weekend (Course)
- 3: Crake Valley Ladies' GC One Day Tournament (GC)
- 4: Surbiton Don's Day Light (GC 0+) : Level Singles (GC)
- 7: Hamptworth Golf Croquet D-Level (10+) Series Tournament (GC)
- 2-4: Hurlingham Midweek Veterans' Advanced Handicap Singles (AC) (AC)
- 5-7: Ramsgate The AC Selectors' Weekend (AC)
- 6-7: Nottingham AC Handicap Weekend (AC)
- 6-7: Roehampton End of Season (AC) Handicap Weekend (Max 16) (AC)
- 6-7: York The York Viking Challenge Short Croquet Tournament (AC)
- 9-10: High Wycombe Blewbury AC C-Level (7+) Advanced Tournament (AC)
- 11: Online Executive Meeting
- 18: Online Board of Trustees Meeting
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