Anyone For Croquet ?

This is a shot from Tuesday afternoon when I went on a photowalk and stumbled on the British Open Championship Croquet Championship, taking place at the Nottingham Croquet Club.

The club is a private members club, the lawns are in the grounds Highfields Park, a public green space maintained by the city council. The club has its own gardeners to maintain the beautiful lawns.

This player is the current World Champion (well that's what my next strangers , Cath and Peggy, told me)

[Corinne C]

Great shot of this British sport. My husband told me it is played widely in the US. This We even have a set in the garage but I admit I have never played :-)

[Phil Howcroft]

@corinnec apparently it is a very complicated game corinne , I've never played !

[Carole Sandford]

Great shot of the action! Must admit I don’t really associate Nottingham with croquet, who knew!

[Phil Howcroft]

@carole_sandford Carole , there's not much action , it's a slow paced game , I pressed the shutter after the player had made his shot

[Carole Sandford]

@phil_howcroft action such as it was 😉

[Phil Howcroft]

@carole_sandford 😀

[Mags]

Nicely captured! I haven't played in years and years.

[Issi Bannerman]

Oh, my, looks very serious!

[Newbank Lass]

Reminds me of childhood, for some reason we had a set at home and played in the summer.

[Christina]

It looks serious!

[Dione Giorgio]

World champion!!! That must have been a very lucky day for you to pass by exactly at the time he was playing. He looks very concentrrated. Beautiful capture of him.

[Judith Johnson]

He looks very dedicated to his sport

[Boxplayer]

So bizarre to stumble upon.