GC European Clubs League

Golf Croquet

This is a two-day Golf Croquet match event run by the World Croquet Federation as one of the "Qualifying Heats" for clubs in the European Clubs GC League. Clubs are from any European country whose national governing body is a member of the WCF. This year it is the League's fourth season.

This year the other heats will be held in Czechia, England, Germany, Greece (for the first time), Ireland, Latvia, Scotland and Spain.

The heat format is an all-play-all block of four teams, who each play a 4-a-side match against each of the other 3 club teams. Each match comprises 2 doubles games and 8 singles games, all level play. Two points are awarded for each match won, or one point for a drawn match. A club team may have 4 to 6 players, with a team of 4 selected for each match.

The heat winner is the team with the most points. If two or more teams are tied on points then the winner is the team with the most singles wins across all matches. If still tied then the winner is the team with the best net hoops score amongst those teams still tied.

The winning team from each heat qualifies to enter a "Championship Heat" in 2027.

Last year 45 club teams participated in heats played at Roehampton, Phyllis Court, Compton and Newport in England, at Vigo and Novo Sancti Petri in Spain, and at Carrickmines in Ireland, Südwest in Germany, Telc in Czechia, and Ikskile in Latvia. The 2025 Grand Final between the heat winners was played at Sussex County in England, and was won by Roehampton. This year's Grand Final will be held in Carrickmines in Ireland (though we can't qualify for it under the new rules this year).

ERC competition rules: (PDF, 547 kb)

Fixture contact: Simon Hathrell

Watford event arrangements: (PDF, 52 kb)

Block allocation:

Blue block		Yellow block
Club/team	Captain	Club/team	Captain
A: Watford 'A'	Geoff Johnson	E: Croquet VS 'B'	Kerstin Loretz
B: Phyllis Court 'D'	Julia Green	F: Watford 'B'	Mike Grossmith
C: El Tiro	José Luis Antolin	G: Real Golf de Pedreña	Berta de la Peña
D: Hove Beach 'B'	Tim Bick	H: Reigate Priory	Philip Davies

Squad players: (PDF, 144 kb)

Courts and match schedule

Time		Blue block				Yellow block
		A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
Friday 19th June
11:00 - 14:00		Court 4 available for visitors' practice
14:00 - 18:00		Courts 3 & 4 available for visitors' practice
Saturday 20th June
09:10		Team captains' briefing
09:20		Players' warm-up
Match 1		A vs B, C vs D				E vs F, G vs H
09:30	Doubles	3 & 4	3 & 4	3 & 4	3 & 4	1 & 2	1 & 2	1 & 2	1 & 2
10:35	Singles	3 & 4	3 & 4	bye	bye	1 & 2	1 & 2	bye	bye
11:40	Singles	bye	bye	3 & 4	3 & 4	bye	bye	1 & 2	1 & 2
12:45	Singles	3 & 4	3 & 4	LUNCH	LUNCH	1 & 2	1 & 2	LUNCH	LUNCH
13:50	Singles	LUNCH	LUNCH	3 & 4	3 & 4	LUNCH	LUNCH	1 & 2	1 & 2
Match 2		A vs C, B vs D				E vs G, F vs H
15:00	Doubles	1 & 2	1 & 2	1 & 2	1 & 2	3 & 4	3 & 4	3 & 4	3 & 4
16:05		Afternoon tea
16:30	Singles	1 & 2	bye	1 & 2	bye	3 & 4	bye	3 & 4	bye
17:35	Singles	bye	1 & 2	bye	1 & 2	bye	3 & 4	bye	3 & 4
20:30		Dinner at Il Pellegrino
Sunday 21st June
09:20		Players' warm-up
09:30	Singles	1 & 2	bye	1 & 2	bye	3 & 4	bye	3 & 4	bye
10:35	Singles	bye	1 & 2	bye	1 & 2	bye	3 & 4	bye	3 & 4
Match 3		A vs D, B vs C				E vs H, F vs G
11:40	Doubles	3 & 4	3 & 4	3 & 4	3 & 4	1 & 2	1 & 2	1 & 2	1 & 2
12:45	Singles	3 & 4	LUNCH	LUNCH	3 & 4	1 & 2	LUNCH	LUNCH	1 & 2
13:50	Singles	LUNCH	3 & 4	3 & 4	LUNCH	LUNCH	1 & 2	1 & 2	LUNCH
14:55	Singles	3 & 4	bye	bye	3 & 4	1 & 2	bye	bye	1 & 2
16:00	Singles	bye	3 & 4	3 & 4	bye	bye	1 & 2	1 & 2	bye
17:00		Afternoon tea & results