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Monday,
April 26, 2010
Largest
Croquet Course - Mexico Parks and Recreation Department
sets world record
MEXICO, MO, USA -- Mexico Parks and Recreation
Department recently built a croquet course with 20-foot-high
stakes and 6-foot-tall wickets - setting the new world record
for the Largest
Croquet Course.
Photo: Charlie Maupin kneels under one
of the large wickets to be used at the “World’s
Largest Croquet Course” event, while holding a normal
size croquet wicket. Photo by Brenda Fike (enlarge
photo)
“The idea originated at a meeting at the
historical society; we were trying to plan a real croquet
tournament, but it got really complicated so we tried to take
a ‘let’s have fun’ approach to it”, P&R director Chad Shoemaker
says.
Promotional material for the “World’s
Largest Croquet Course” event Saturday, June 19 at
Green Estate Park indicates Mexico Parks and Recreation Department
organizers want to make sure no entry gets too serious – except
about having a good time.
“The object of the game is to have fun, get exercise,
raise money for local civic organizations and make people
watching scratch their heads while muttering what in the heck
are those fools doing out there on the Green Estate reads
the first item on the list of “official rules.”
Entrants will be sent out onto the course
in flights of 12 players. Once they get under way, they can
play at their own pace. They can expect challenges at each
wicket as well as along the way with prizes up for grabs by
which to remember the event.
“Our job is helping make Mexico a good place
to live and part of that involves having fun,” Shoemaker summed
up. “We always like to get people outside and walking; this
will be good low-impact exercise, so it’s a win-win situation.”
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Monday,
April 26, 2010
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