Warrnambool City Croquet Club is another south-west club that has missed out on plenty of opportunities this year with COVID-19 restrictions.
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But secretary Kerri Worland is grateful the club's members have been able to get down to lawns as much as they have.
"I haven't minded, it has been really nice to come down when we have been able to come back and just catch up with everyone and start playing again - you get rusty being away," she said.
Worland said she would normally play twice a week.
"When there's been strict lockdowns we haven't been able to come down," she said.
"But because it's played in open air and it's not really dense - not like football or something where you are tackling and touching each other all the time - it's been one of the things that's quite safe to play.
"And when things have been opened up allowing sport, we've been all keen to come back."
The good-humoured Worland, who admits she's been playing "too long", has just taken on the club secretary role.
"It's a bit of a challenge because I've never done that before," she said.
"It's been good, everyone has been really helpful."
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Worland moved from Hamilton to Warrnambool about 25 years ago. She has played with the Warrnambool club for at least a decade.
The croquet fanatic said she played the sport for fun more than anything else.
"There are a few things I enjoy (about it), one of them is just being out in the open air on a regular basis," she said.
"And then with a friendly bunch of people - that makes all the difference."
Committee member and golf croquet captain Judy Stewart explained the rules the club was operating under.
"At the moment in community sport, you're only really allowed to do training, however as a recreational sport we're allowed to have social play," she said.
"So we can come down and we can play, we're allowed to have 20 people here.
"But if there's 20 people, we have to be in groups of not more than 10 so that each group is an individual group and not mixing with the other group.
"Unfortunately no competition."
Stewart said it was disappointing the club was missing out on its regional pennant matches against Koroit, Terang and Portland.
Players also have to wear masks for social play.
The keen croquet members have been back on the lawns since the most recent lockdown in regional Victoria ended about a fortnight ago.
Stewart added it was hard for the club to grow its membership when it couldn't hold come and try sessions.
"You try to have a come and try day and you find yourself locked up again," she said.
"We were going to have a rules workshop and we had it advertised around the whole district - there were people coming from Portland, Koroit, Terang.
"It was going to be a really strong turnout and preliminary to starting our pennant season.
"So just sharpening the rules and having a bit of practice and social time together."
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