Rondebosch Croquet Club

Happy NewYear to all the Croquet players around the world and especially in Cape Town.

On 16th December RCC had a fun day playing doubles and then celebrating with a cold buffet lunch provided by RCC for its members.

We had an interesting croquet function on Sunday. Ladies croquet and cake function. Each lady had to bring a cake and after a cake decorating lesson were allowed to take home 12 slices from any of the 30 cakes on display.
We had 8 ladies learn to play croquet with a possibilityof gaining 2 or 3 new younger players.

Today we played the Eagles and although RCC lost we had a good time. My highlight was Reagan and I beat Jim Field and his partner.

Photos of the time we spent playing croquet and the times of enjoyment at the end of play everyday.

This past week the SACA held the GC Nationals Tournament in Port Alfred. There were 48 participants with players from Gauteng, Australia, UK, East London, Cape Town and Port Alfred.
The first 4 days of intense croquet with wins and loses for all, learnings from our mistakes and realizing we don't know all the rules especially when certain situations arose on the lawn. But overall it was a good competition and lots of fun.
Winner of the Level singles was Jim Field who I happened to BEAT TWICE. Sorry Jim I had to mention that I as a handicap of 3 beat Jim who had a handicap on minus 3.

SACA Natiomals in Port Alfred

AC Rules 7th Edition Official Ruling - effective 1st November 2025 - World Croquet Federation Please see below a link to an Official Ruling issued by the WCF ACLC. ACLC Official Ruling ASD 1.11.25 These can also be found on the WCF website on page: Laws of Association Croquet Please arrange to distribute this to your referees.

With Croquet England – I just got recognised as one of their rising fans! 🎉

Reg Bamford is the 2025 Association Croquet World Champion
Defeating England’s Mark Avery, Reg Bamford, representing South Africa, took the title with a quick three wins in the final best of five match.

Bamford finished the event with an impressive 14 triple peel turns in the knockout, showing a clean display of precision croquet which was clearly a step above the rest of the field. Without dropping a single game, Bamford sailed through the championship knockout beating Spain, New Zealand and England favourites along the way.

Reg is a member of Surbiton Croquet Club where he is often seen practising before major events. He started playing croquet as a young child in South Africa, where he was born, and in his winning interview he referenced to having played for over 50 years, indicating croquet to be the sport which has no limitations or discriminations.

The next Association Croquet World Championship will be held in Wellington, New Zealand, where Reg will be back to defend his World Championship title. Only he and England’s Robert Fulford have won the tournament six times, all eyes will be on whether he can make it to seven first.

Some information re advantage golf croquet update
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Advantage GC – Advice to Tournament Managers for Time Limited Games
It has recently been brought to the Management Committees attention by the WCF Advantage Rules Committee and Golf Croquet Rules Committee, that the current GC rules do not adequately cover how to determine the winner of Time-limited Advantage games if play is stopped before either side has reached its target score.

The intent is that this omission will be addressed in the next edition of the GC Rules. In the meantime, we advise National Governing Bodies to deal with this by releasing advice to the managers of their tournaments.

The GCRC recommendation is to use the concept of ‘Scoring Fractions’ to determine who has won once play has stopped, as defined by Rules19.1. Stated simply, this means dividing the number of hoops a side has actually won (when play has stopped), by the total number they needed to win at the start of the game.

Example:

Side A: started on -1 and therefore needed to score 8 points to win a typical 13-point game.

Side B: started on 2 and therefore needed to score 5 points.

If the score was 4:5 when play was stopped,

side A would have won 4 - (-1) = 5 hoops with a scoring fraction of 5/8 = 62.5%, and
side B would have won 5 - (2) = 3 hoops with a scoring fraction of 3/5 = 60%.
Therefore, Side A wins the game, having achieved the higher scoring fraction.

Unless the organising body has stated that tied games are allowed, if the scoring fractions are equal when play is stopped, play is to continue and the side that wins the next hoop is the winner of the game.

This advice only impacts Rules 19.1.4, 19.1.5 and 19.1.6.

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