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Kingaroy Croquet Club president Robert Green … six new members have signed up just recently<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

November 20, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every Tuesday morning, the lowest green at the Kingaroy Bowls Club is taken over by a wild bunch wielding wooden mallets and hitting colourful balls.<\/p>\n

The players are all keen members of the Kingaroy Croquet Club which\u00a0recently underwent a growth spurt, picking up six new members in a very short time.<\/p>\n

Club president Robert Green said membership was now 16 but more were always welcome to come along from 9:00am to noon on Tuesdays.<\/p>\n

One of these new members is former local MP Dolly Pratt who admitted that before she started playing she thought the game was only for old people.<\/p>\n

Now she thinks about it a lot differently.<\/p>\n

“It’s full of strategy, a mind challenge,” she said.<\/p>\n

“It’s really competitive.\u00a0There’s a lot of mind games going on!”<\/p>\n

Croquet has been described as a type of “ground billiards”, and the concept is a lot like snooker, blocking opponents’ shots and knocking balls out of the way.<\/p>\n

The Kingaroy club plays several different croquet games, including “golf”, “Aussie golf”, “ricochet” and the more formal “Association” style.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Club captain Jenny Bickerton, from Kumbia, has been a member of the club for six years.<\/p>\n

She encouraged people who had never played to come along and have a try.<\/p>\n

“Golf croquet is a good one to start newcomers on,” she said. “There’s always people here who will help you.”<\/p>\n

Doug Findlay started playing with the club in 2004, about a year after it shifted from Memorial Park to the Kingaroy Bowls Club.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At that time, they played on one of the bowling greens, but a few years later they took over responsibility for looking after the lower green at the club.<\/p>\n

The greenkeepers who keep the lawn shipshape are Terry Kearney, from Kumbia, and the club’s oldest member, Ted Black, from Kingaroy, who is 90.<\/p>\n

They’re both keen players.<\/p>\n

Just don’t suggest to them that croquet is only a game for old people …<\/p>\n

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Members of the Kingaroy Croquet Club pose for the camera on Tuesday … centre in the front row are club secretary \/ treasurer Margaret Kearney, president Robert Green and captain Jenny Bickerton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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It’s a lot harder than it looks … we know, we tried<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Doug Findlay started playing with the Kingaroy Croquet Club in 2004<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kingaroy Croquet Club greenkeepers Ted Black and Terry Kearney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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