Some say croquet combines the skills of golf, billiards, and chess. Competitors have a passion for the game that looks genteel but can be a step away from vicious when skills and personalities collide.
 

Competitive croquet may be a dog-eat-dog sport, but the great thing about the game is that anyone can play. Young and old, men and women, compete on equal footing. There are no women's tees or handicaps.

Professional player Jim Welch says it's a "thinking man's game," challenging and exciting. As opposed to other pro sports, trash talk in any form and psyching out an opponent are supposed to be banned. But such acceptable terms as "knocking him into the far hills" tell a different story.

The sport has stood the test of time. It was played in various forms in the 14th century by the Romans and the French and has come down to us from those beginnings. Croquet equipment was advertised in the New York Clipper in 1862. One New York paper editorialized, "never in the history of outdoor sports in this country has any game achieved so sudden a popularity."

The U.S. Croquet Association carries rules for backyard nine-wicket, American six-wicket, international six-wicket, and nine-wicket golf croquet.

Whichever you choose, you'll have a great time playing, that is unless you are the victim of being 'knocked into the far hills."
 

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