Croquet is typically a friendly game, a backyard competition, a diversion to be pulled out after burgers and before volleyball. But once one player's ball bumps into another's, it's time to whack ...

'It's a lot of angles. It's a lot of geometry. It's a giant pool table,' Zack Watson, the center's croquet director, says PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — Are you looking to try out a new sport? Then you ...

Stately homes with perfect lawns, picnics or a fanciful scene from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland may spring to mind at the mention of croquet; a shabby industrial estate in Edenbridge, Kent, ...

The U.S. Naval Academy faces off against St. Johns College, the Great Books school, in the 41st annual croquet match in Annapolis that draws thousands to what is essentially a Gatsbyesque lawn party.