The Scotland Yard championship set comes with everything necessary for the more familiar 9-wicket backyard game or the official 6-wicket tournament game for the most serious. Set includes 4 tournament mallets with 38 inch multi laminated eucalyptus hardwood (32 lams per inch) handles wrapped with perforated leather grips. The mallet heads have inlaid sight lines, added weight and lexan faces on the mallet heads near the points of contact. The 4 tournament weight croquet balls (16 ounces each) are biaxially milled to make deep diamond grooves on their surfaces; this give the balls traction to follow a course on grass. Wickets (9) are fashioned from 7/16 inch powdercoated solid steel rod, not from "coat hangar" wire. They are marked to show how deep to set them into the ground to hold the proper 12 inch vertical clearance when firmly fixed. The 2 wooden stakes used in the 9-wicket game to establish the finish and turning points have detachable black spires to hold the 4 color-coded marker clips that document the progress of the game. The rubber headed hammer is supplied to fix the pegs, stakes, flags and wickets into the ground since the mallets should never be used for this purpose. The set comes with the official US Croquet Association rules as well as our Croquet Sport house rules for both a 6-wicket and 9-wicket game . The tough corded nylon soft case has a place for everything, and everything is held in place by special straps and compartments. It has both handles and a shoulder strap for carrying. Hand made in India.
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