Merthyr Croquet Club is celebrating 100 years of croquet in New Farm Park! The public are invited to join us Saturday 27 July from 2pm for music, food and fun! We look forward to seeing many friendly faces at our beautiful club. Email to 100@merthyrcroquet.com.au with any questions or to let us know you’re coming!
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MCC’s MMC!
Merthyr Croquet Club (MCC) celebrates a Mid-year Member Celebration (MMC)! Welcoming all/new/introductory members, and friends from the community (Including our club patron Cr. Vicki Howard) Celebrating 100 years of Croquet with Croquet Queensland (Centenary CAQ badges given out to members) Learning about the new updates to the 6th edition Golf Croquet Rules (Special thanks to …
GC Pennants (Div 3)
Merthyr Div 3 Golf Pennants team members welcomed Twin Rivers to our club to kick-off our Division 3 Golf Croquet Pennants season July 26 2022. MCC Players in this match included: Ian Harding, Kevin Fear, David & Glenis Phillips. While it may not have translated to the final scores; Merthyr participants reported an enjoyable day …
ABC 7.30 Report
Croquet and politics?! Stay to the end to catch a quick snapshot of our beautiful club. The ABC 7.30 Report crew came to visit (and play a game with us) a few weeks ago and here’s the final report! (ABC 7.30 Report) The battle heats up for the federal electorate of Brisbane
Let’s go team Merthyr! GC Pennants (Div 2)
Merthyr welcomed Eildon Croquet Club players for our first match of Div 2 golf pennants 2022. The match format was 2 doubles games, and 8 singles games. It was a competitive match and the final scores were pretty close in each game. Congratulations to our visitors who won the day overall by a single singles …
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2022 Floods
A “rain-bomb” sat over South East Queensland for ~3 days and brought unrelenting torrential downpours through to Sunday 27 Feb 2022.
Let’s play Croquet! 2022
Let’s play Croquet! MCC is back in action for the 2022 season! (We actually resumed play at the end of January — only took a break for lawn works really, otherwise we’re able to play all year!) We’re trialling more structured play for our Thursday & Saturday sessions as our membership has been growing over …
2021 Rundown
Enjoy some info about the club’s operations, croquet results and future plans. Club Operations Membership 43 Members (8 new as of 2021 + 10 currently on intro) Private Functions 50+ functions held throughout the year, ranging from 10 to 80+ guests. Club Events We held a number of community events for members, their families, friends …
Lawn Rejuvenation
Our lawns need some serious love and attention at the end of the playing season. How to love your lawn: Scarify & dethatch Aerate & agitate Spread fresh soil Level it out
Councillors Cup 2021
Merthyr welcomed our neighbours at Windsor Croquet Club and both our respective councillors to participate in the 5th annual Councillors Cup! Central Ward brought Cr. Vicki Howard, with Robert Lambert, Luke and Victor to compete against the Windsor team with Cr. Andrew Wines, Dom (his father), Bret and Bree. Team Merthyr brought home the victory …