One of the early White House scandals resulted when President Rutherford B. Hayes spent taxpayer money on fancy croquet balls for the south lawn. The LG6 set comes with everything necessary for an official 6-wicket tournament game or the more familiar 9-wicket backyard game. Set includes 6 laminated solid wood mallets with 38 inch handles wrapped with perforated leather grips, inlaid sight lines and brass reinforcing bands that are milled into the heads near the points of contact. The 6 croquet balls are biaxially milled to make deep diamond grooves on their surfaces; this gives the balls traction to follow a course on grass. Wickets (9) are fashioned from 7/16 inch powdercoated solid steel rod, not from coat hanger 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 nine wicket game to establish the finish and turning points have a detachable black spire to hold the six color coded marker clips used to document the progress of the game. Use the rubber headed hammer 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 USCA rules for both a 6 and 9 wicket game. The three zipper tough corded nylon bag holds everything and has handles and a shoulder strap for storage and carrying. Hand made in India.
Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
THIS IS DEFINATELY AN ADULT TOY, ALTHOUGH OLDER CHILDREN WOULD PROBABLY BE ABLE TO USE IT. SIZE OF THE MALLETS AND THEIR INDIVIDUAL WEIGHT BEING THE ISSUE. THE QUALITY OF THIS SET IS SUPERB AND IF COST IS NOT AN ISSUE IT IS DEFINATELY THE ONE TO BUY. WE HAVE USED IT AT SEVERAL FAMILY GATHERINGS AND HAVE HAD NO PROBLEMS WITH THE EQUIPMENT OR ANY BREAKAGE. THIS IS A EXTREMELY WELL CONSTRUCTED SET AND QUALITY IS EXCELLENT.
