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• 2010/04/24: Photos of the Kelvin Grove team in action in the Highlander Tournament in Port Alfred can be found in the gallery.

History

On the 27th October 1982, Ian Gillespie, President of the South African Croquet Association gave a talk and video presentation at Kelvin Grove to assess the possible interest in the sport with a view to forming a croquet section within the club.
The first meeting was held on 15th November 1982, when a committee was formed with Ian as Chairman and 80 members were enrolled. Assistance initially was given by David Cunningham, Keith Collins, Andy Knox and Corrie Phillips who coached beginners until 1984 when D. Day took over.

The first game was played on 27th November 1982 with the opening ball being struck by Eric Grubb Chairman of Kelvin Grove. David continues to help in laying out the courts and Eric continues to win prizes.
Organised play was arranged for Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, which was changed to Tuesday and Saturday afternoons. In 1987 play was moved from the Grove bowling green where we had started to our present position after extensions to the bowling green to accommodate four small courts which are changed to two large ones on Wednesday and Thursday.

Kelvin participates in the Robinson Cup which started in 1992 also the WP Golf Croquet League which started in 2004 and at present runs seven club competitions.
Twilight croquet on Friday was introduced by Clare Stableford in 1992. Membership at present is 89 having peaked at 115. This year the SA National Tournament Golf Croquet will be played at Kelvin. In November three of our members, Carole Jackson, Clare Stableford and Anne Oxton will take part in the inaugural International Ladies Golf Croquet Tournament in Cairo.

Facilities

Kelvin is a large sports and social club with excellent facilities including Tennis, bowls, squash, swimming, etc and 2 full size croquet courts which are open to members of the club most days of the week except Tuesday and Saturday afternoons when only members of the croquet section play organised games. We were the main venue for the World Championships and we provided 4 courts by using the excellant bowls green

Players

We have 60 to 70 members of the section and of these 20 to 30 play Golf croquet on these 2 afternoons. Very little Association is played .

Competitions

We have many open and handicap single and double club competitions during the season and we enter inter club golf matches such as the WP League and the Robinson Cup both of which we won In 2008.

It is our hope that Kelvin will continue to thrive in the future and its members enjoy the wonderful setting and facilities provided.

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Contact Details

Contact:	Anne Oxton (Secretary)
Address:	TBC
Tel:	+27 (0)21 685-3773
E-mail:	kgcc@croquet.org.za