One-to-One Coaching with Stephen Custance-Baker
Boost your playing power with an hour of individual tuition with Stephen – author of three acclaimed books on GC, Short Croquet enthusiast, and a former Croquet England Coach of the Year. Use the time to work on any aspect or aspects of croquet technique or strategy that you choose. This is open to both AC and GC players. Please contact the Course Secretary before booking to discuss timings.
Cost: £35 per session
£50 for 2 people sharing the same one hour session; use coupon code OneToOne at the checkout.
Every Shot is Tactical
This one-day course is, like its companion course the following day, for GC players with handicaps from 5 to 9. It draws on the course leader's book 'Every Shot Is Tactical' and is designed to help developing players understand the benefits of forward thinking in GC. Four specific technical aspects will be covered: five-shot thinking (planning this stroke and your next by predicting opponents' most likely actions); partner play (making optimum use of partner and his/her position and playing ability); 'transferring the hamper' (hampering the opponent, and seizing the initiative from a hampered position); and percentage play (assessing the odds and making decisions accordingly). Each session will include explanations with examples, practice on the lawn, and recommended exercises.
If booked together with 'GC Improvers Development Day' (Friday 16 May), reduced price for 2 days is £75. This will be calculated automatically at the checkout.
GC Improvers Development Day
This one-day course complements 'Every Shot Is Tactical' the previous day, and, like it, is for GC players with handicaps from 5 to 9. It aims to develop skill and understanding in a number of key areas: running and visualising angled hoops; using an imaginary ball in rushes, clearances and ricochets; when and how to use extra strokes, and when not to; and making confident and purposeful use of two-ball strokes in GC. As with 'Every Shot Is Tactical', each session will include detailed explanations, with examples on the lawn, and a good range of recommended exercises for further use.
If booked together with 'Every Shot Is Tactical' (Thursday 15 May), reduced price for 2 days is £75. This will be calculated automatically at the checkout.