Why is croquet a fringe sport?
Today, in those countries and all the other members of the World Croquet Federation, “association croquet” is a fringe sport. You will reply, “That’s inevitable,” and many would agree – but not Terry Colbert, the new General Manager of the National Croquet Center in West Palm Beach. The beautiful Center is the 21st century American successor to Wimbledon as the largest, the finest, and the best, croquet’s number one showcase venue in the world. Colbert may suffer his own mistakes in the fullness of time, but he will not imitate the monstrous failure of Wimbledon. Colbert, former longtime president of the New York Croquet Club, is not very interested in high-level tournaments. He wants to build the sport, and in doing that, he insists that croquet, first and foremost, should be fun. “You don’t have to worry about the top players, they’ll take care of themselves, they can have all the grueling dawn-to-dusk croquet jousts they want. But what about the new players, what about the social pl
