Crolf

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Crolf is a mixture of croquet and golf. You use equipment from croquet and play it like golf in your garden.

The rules are quite simple - I will try to explain.

The course

From the start of each hole there should be a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 30 m. If there is a tree, bush, stone, sundial or a flagstaff in the way, it's just a challenge.

Usually there are 12 holes, but in the original crolf there was only one (and slightly different rules).

The game

Make a scorecard to write down how many strokes the players use. Also find the equipment from your croquet game.

The players are numbered from 1 to max. 6, and they keep their number until the end. Player 1 is the first to play (surprise!), but only once. Then player 2, 3 in turn and so on. Now it is player 1 again, player 2, 3 ...

If someone is lucky enough to get a hole-in-one, it scores 0. If your ball is hit by accident by another player, it can never be a hole-in-one. It scores at least 1.

If you have to move your ball by hand (because it is out of bounds or can't be played where it lies), it costs 1 extra stroke.

The winner is the player who has used the least strokes.

World Championships

We have a world championship once a year, but at the moment there nearly only Danish crolfplayers.
Juan has a Spanish passport, but has been living in Denmark since the seventies. There are also girls from Greenland, South Africa, Thailand and 3 from Norway playing crolf, but they are married to Danes and have Danish passports.
We have also had guest players from Colombia, Thailand, Sweden and Portugal, but they have Danish passport or they are now living in Denmark.

The first real non-Dane playing Crolf at the World Championships was Clare and Allan Mitchell from Nelson, New Zealand.

Clare Mitchell, Nelson (NZ) and Peter Christensen, Ødis Kroge (DK).

Allan Mitchell, Nelson, New Zealand

In 2007 we had 2 German Crolf players playing with us.

There are 2 competitions.
All players have to play 4 matches against 3-5 other competitors at 4 different courses.
The title goes to the player who has the least number of strokes in all 4 matches. This is the winner of 'The Golden Mallet' and the winner in what we in Denmark call 'Slagspil'. In English I think it is called 'Stroke Play'.

The best players from Stroke Play go on in a new game, that we call 'Kampspil' in Danish. In English it could be something like 'Matchgame' or 'Match Play'.
Typically there are 6 groups with 6 players, and only the winner from these groups goes to the final.
The 6 winners then plays the final and the winner gets "The Golden Ball".

The player who ends last in Stroke Play gets "The Squared Ball", which should bring luck.

In 2007 Danish Crolf Union has over 1500 organized members in 40 clubs.

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