9-Wicket "Backyard Style" Grass Croquet -
Rules: The Tight-ball Shot
The Tight-ball - A tight-ball shot is our version of the backyard croquet shot of "sending the other ball away", but instead of placing the foot on the playing ball to hold it, and then shooting the object ball away, our game uses the hand. After a legal roquet, the player may elect to use the tight-ball shot as the first of the two earned continuation shots. To tight-ball, or simply
- place the playing ball in contact with the object ball.
- hold the playing ball with one hand.
- hit only the playing ball with the mallet.
- keep the playing ball under control, that is, not allow it to slip or move, while hitting the playing ball.
It is a foul if the playing ball slips from the hand.
It is a foul if the player's hand, mallet, or playing ball comes in contact with any other ball while making the tight-ball shot.
It is not a foul if the object ball, having been tight-balled away from the playing ball, rolls back into the playing ball, provided that the player maintains control of (holds onto) the playing ball and that the object ball does not hit the player's hand.
It is not a foul to lightly tap the playing ball and/or object ball prior to the tight-ball shot in order to keep them in contact, but if the ball(s) are moved prior to the tight-ball shot, the ball(s) should be replaced by the referee.
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