Contents...

• The Open Championships
• Selection Tournaments
• Association Croquet Championships
• Golf Croquet Championships
• Handicap Events

• The Open Championships - Singles and Doubles; AC and GC
• Selection Tournaments - Eights Week, Ladies (all events), GC Eights
• Association Croquet Championships - Western, Eastern, Northern, Southern, Surrey, Coles, Men's and Women's
• Golf Croquet Championships - The English National Singles & Doubles, Women's, Veterans, Under 25, Grass Roots and Centre Stage
• Handicap Events - Peel Memorials (Men's, Women's, Doubles) and All-England (AC and GC)

The Open Championships

* The Coronation Gold Cup was subscribed for by the members of the Association for the Coronation of King Edward VII in 1911.

* The Ayres Cup was presented by Messrs FH Ayres in 1897 to the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club and transferred to the Association in 1905. Awarded originally to the winner of the championship but from 1932 to the runner-up.

* The Doubles Championship - a pair of silver porringers, presented by MB Reckitt and GL Reckitt in 1924.

* The Delves Broughton Cup was one of a pair of cups donated by Sir HJ Delves Broughton in 1936, only one of which has survived - the other was stolen in the 1970s. Until the mid 90s the Delves Broughton Cup(s) were used for the Golf Croquet Doubles Championship. The single remaining cup was repurposed in 2000 to be awarded to the winner of the Golf Croquet Open Championship.

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Selection Tournaments

* The President's Cup has been played for since 1934. Before then the event was known as the Champion Cup and the trophy was the Beddow Cup.

* The Jaques Centenary Cup is presented to the runner up in the President's Cup Eight. Ties for second place are not resolved; instead, the trophy is shared.

* The trophy for the Longman Bowl is actually a silver-plated cake stand but, because of its association with the Barlow Bowl, it has always been known as a bowl. It was presented to The Croquet Association in November 1979 by Mrs Kay Longman, a former lady champion, when The Croquet Association Council initiated a competition for the invited six or eight best women players of the year next below the rank of those in the Barlow Bowl. Mrs Longman's donation was accompanied by the wish that if the new competition were to be abandoned, the last winner should be allowed to retain the trophy.

* The trophy for the Ladies First selection event was the Ladies Field Cup until 1989 when it was stolen. Since then it has been the Barlow Bowl.

* The trophy for the GC First Eight was the Musk's Cup until 2019.

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Association Croquet Championships

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Golf Croquet Championships

* The Ascot Cup - A silver bowl, originally the property of the Ascot Heath Club (1904-07), then of the Windlesham Club and later of the Fleet Club, which reverted finally to the Association on the demise of the latter club during the 1939-45 war.

* The Ranelagh Cups - A pair of silver cups, won at the Ranelagh Club by AE Weightman and Miss R Weightman in 1913 and left by Miss Weightman to Mr RJ Bricher who presented them in 1988.

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Handicap Events

* Peel Memorials (in memory of Walter Peel) - Two silver bowls, subscribed for by the members of the Association in 1898 and 1899. Played for under handicap. One event for men and one event for women.

* Mixed Doubles - Two silver cups, presented in 1929 in memory of Lady Murray. Doubles played for under handicap.

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