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The United States Croquet Association (USCA) fosters croquet
Croquet
Croquet is a lawn game, played both as a recreational pastime and as a competitive sport. It involves hitting plastic or wooden balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing court.-History:...

 in all its forms, from the familiar nine-wicket croquet game to the modern sport of six-wicket croquet. There are USCA-affiliated clubs and tournaments across the United States and Canada. The official rules of American Croquet are maintained by the USCA. The USCA is a member of the World Croquet Federation
World Croquet Federation
The World Croquet Federation encourages, promotes and develops the recognised versions of the game of croquet internationally at all levels. National croquet associations around the world are members of the WCF, and the WCF sanctions championship croquet tournaments worldwide...

.

The USCA is headquartered at the National Croquet Center, 700 Florida Mango Road, West Palm Beach, Florida
West Palm Beach, Florida
West Palm Beach, is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and is the most populous city in and county seat of Palm Beach County, the third most populous county in Florida with a 2010 population of 1,320,134. The city is also the oldest incorporated municipality in South Florida...

. It has a full-time office staff which keeps regular weekday hours. They welcome calls or e-mails requesting information on all aspects of croquet, including information on starting a club and on local contacts to instruct and advise you. They will also gladly offer advice, print resources, and consulting on lawn construction and maintenance.

History

In 1977, Jack Osborn
Jack Osborn
Jack R. Osborn was an American croquet champion and founder of the United States Croquet Association. Osborn was born and raised in San Francisco, California....

 organized five Eastern clubs (including the Westhampton Mallet Club, Croquet Club of Bermuda, Green Gables Croquet Club
Green Gables Croquet Club
The Green Gables Croquet Club of Spring Lake, New Jersey was founded in 1957 by Suzie Linden . It is the oldest continuous croquet club in the United States and among the three founding members of the U.S. Croquet Association...

, New York Croquet Club, and Palm Beach Croquet Club) into the United States Croquet Association (USCA), and wrote a new rule book for an American version of the six-wicket sport called American Rules croquet.http://www.mauicroquetclub.org/history/index.htm

It was Jack Osborn's vision, marketing savvy, energy, and sheer dogged determination that brought together five clubs in 1977 to form the nucleus of the United States Croquet Association. Although the sport had long flourished in the Commonwealth countries, croquet had devolved to a backyard pastime in the United States, and there were no agreed-upon rules.

One of the first orders of business of the new association was to hammer out compromise rules acceptable to all five clubs - the Green Gables Croquet Club
Green Gables Croquet Club
The Green Gables Croquet Club of Spring Lake, New Jersey was founded in 1957 by Suzie Linden . It is the oldest continuous croquet club in the United States and among the three founding members of the U.S. Croquet Association...

, the Palm Beach Croquet Club, the New York Croquet Club, the Westhampton Mallet Club, and the Croquet Club of Bermuda. Since then, the list has grown to nearly 400 member clubs with 3500 members, and the rules have survived with minor periodic adjustments. http://www.croquetworld.com/Archives/JOobit.asp

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