World Champion Robert Fletcher on what makes croquet rich

From current World Champion, Robert Fletcher from Victoria – photo and article in The Saturday Paper, 5th January 2016:

"Croquet is a really good blend, I think. You’ve got the physical skills of snooker, so it’s quite skilful in terms of shot execution and angles. And probably the touch of golf, where you do have to read a lawn. A lawn’s not perfectly flat. And the mental concentration of both.

Then you’ve probably got an extra dynamic, the strategy of chess thrown into it. So it’s a very rich game on all sorts of levels."