Long before pickleball surged in popularity across Long Island, another less noisy, but niche sport took root in the Hamptons: Croquet. The Westhampton Mallet Club, one of the oldest croquet clubs in ...

The Red Stick Croquet Club plays a variation of the game that’s far removed from the image of kids with mallets haphazardly knocking colored balls through wickets in the backyard. For members of the ...

Watching croquet experts line up their shots is like watching golfers line up their putts -- hunkering down, sighting with their mallets, picking up leaves and bits of grass that might be in their way ...