Scottish Croquet Association

Auchincruive Croquet Club

Auchincruive Croquet Club is based three miles from Ayr within the Auchincruive Estate on the edge of the picturesque River Ayr gorge and is overlooked by the historic Adam mansion of Oswald Hall. The club grew out of a lunchtime Golf Croquet (GC) group established in the 1960s as part of a staff social club at the West of Scotland Agricultural College. However after becoming involved with the wider Scottish croquet scene in the early 1970s the croquet players joined the fledgling Scottish Croquet Association in 1974 and thus became Auchincruive Croquet Club playing both Association Croquet (AC) and GC.

The club is open to all and maintains open sessions on Saturday afternoons and Thursday evenings. Otherwise the lawns are generally available to book for play from dawn to dusk from early April until the end of October and are very well used. Nowadays at Auchincruive we continue to play both GC and AC.

The club holds regular tournaments, including a midsummer Saturday Open GC Doubles event and an Interclub AC event, The Basil Townsend Quaich. Additionally we run all season GC Doubles and Handicap Singles 'Swiss' events. Club members also regularly play at other clubs in Scotland and more occasionally abroad.

Approaching Auchincruive via Glasgow and the M77 and A77 turn left towards Stranraer at the Monkton roundabout The safest route is then to go left again after two miles at the next roundabout, Sandyford Toll, onto the B742 toward Mossblown and right at the crossroads in the village. Turn left after ¾ of a mile at the bus shelter marking the entry to Auchincruive. Parking is after a few yards on the left. The Bothy café and restaurant is at the bottom of the hill and this can be found by satnav and the croquet lawns 100 yards further on.