Hi Everyone, Currently we pay to have our (Jamberoo CC) croquet lawns mown by the adjacent golf club greenkeepers who have set their mower ( a Toro Greensmaster Triflex mower) for an 8 mm cut. At leas

Hi Nick, The approach you are proposing seems pretty good to me but I would have liked to see some statistics (in industry we used to call them 'Key Performance Indicators' or KPIs) which would help c

Hi Players, Jamberoo CC will hold its annual 4 day AC tournament from Friday 14th March to Monday 17th March. This year we have had a couple of people withdraw from the event and if anyone in the 14 t

Hi CNSW players, About 18 months ago, someone hacked one or more Yahoo servers and obtained the details of about 450,000 Yahoo e-mail accounts. Yahoo has sinced improved their security and there doesn

Hi Wal and the group, I fully support the need to expand the GC handicap range to, at least, 14. Jamberoo is a reasonably large club (79 GC players) and we have recently done a review of handicaps whi

Tim, We have a range of skills in the club and some players who never go to external tournaments are better than some who do and so there is a good possibility than some who do go to external tourname

Tim and Alan, I thought I was commenting on the arguments rather than the person and so my apologies if you have taken it personally. I agree that this is not a forum to criticise people. With regard

Hi Wal and everyone, I think that you have made some very valid points, Wal.The official regulations make no allowance for social play despite the fact that social players make up the vast majority of

Hi Alan and Tim The comment that "you use one handicap card when you think you are going to win and another when you think you may lose" is clearly never the intention of the two card system. It impli

Hi Everyone, I beg to differ with the previous comments. The use of two cards recognises that the spread of abilities inside a club is different to those in the external world.In general the spread of

Hi Peter, I think that it would be a great idea. I looked at doing it using a green laser pointer and installing solid mounts off the lawn but aligned with each boundary. My intention was to use a bat

Hi Everyone, I have been trying to contact the Australian Croquet Company for the past couple of weeks but they are not answering e-mails and their 'phone seems to be continually engaged. Are they sti

Hi Margaret, I don't own a Pidcock and so I was only passing on a comment. I believe that the difference is that the bottom of the 'D' protrudes beyond the round body of the mallet and so is more like

Hi Jan, Thanks for the further clarification. I was aware of the rule but I thought that the two videos helped to make the ruling quite clear. As a further comment on lawn damage we had a discussion a

Hi GC Players, There has been a bit of confusion/uncertainty about lawn damage after a jump shot, the ruling being that if the damage is caused by the mallet then it is a fault, but if by the ball the

Hi Arthur, When we run GC tournaments at Jamberoo we organise on the basis of one game on and then one off to overcome the issue you raise. We plagiarized the idea from Maitland who came up with the c

Hi Jan, We have developed a Risk Management policy at Jamberoo which requires us to identify hazards and assess the risk of someone getting injured. We believe that this is a requirement, or at least

Hi Everyone, I am in Ballina at present where we have just completed the CNSW GC handicap doubles tournament which, incidentally was won by Graham Innocent (Dubbo) & Ray Vise (Forster). It has been a

Hi Tony, Thanks for that, Rule 12 (a) is quite clear. We were looking at striking faults but it is a non-striking fault. We are now somewhat the wiser. Cheers Roger

Hi Tim, Yes, I should have specified but it was a GC game. Cheers Roger