The Big Bash and Indian Premier League put Twenty20 cricket on the map and barefoot bowls is a popular Christmas party activity.
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But could a short-form game called golf croquet be the next to sport to take the world by storm?
Judy Stewart, from the Warrnambool Croquet Club, hopes the game she loves will continue to grow after the club hosted its first golf croquet tournament this week.
Stewart said more and more youngsters were representing Australia and New Zealand in the sport and it would be great to see new faces down at the club's Cramer Street green.
She said a host of school groups around Warrnambool had already tried the unique game.
But what is golf croquet and where did it come from?
Golf croquet is believed to have started in England from about 1900, according to the World Croquet Federation.
But it didn't gather momentum until the late 1980s when it was discovered the Egyptians had been playing competitive golf croquet since the 1950s.
Egyptian Khaled Younis won the first golf croquet world championship held in Italy in 1996.
Warrnambool Croquet Club's Doug Stewart said the Egyptians remained tough to beat.
"They are leaders in the world today, in general," he said.
"The top players come from Egypt.
"We've got some friends who have played over in Egypt and they said it's stunning to watch.
"They're just the affluent (who play), that's the game for the affluent.
"So you're sitting out there on a beautiful balmy night, drinking your champagne or whatever and this game is going on.
"They have to have barriers around the edge of it because the ball is hit that hard and it's to stop the ball bouncing into the crowd."
Judy Stewart, who has been playing golf croquet for about 11 years and refereeing the game for six, summarises it best.
"This game is kind of like Twenty20 cricket versus Test cricket," she said.
"In traditional croquet, you're out on the lawn for two-and-a-half hours and your turn goes for as long as you can keep hitting the ball.
"In golf croquet, both sides are on the lawn at the same time and it's your turn, then my turn, your turn, my turn.
"Whoever gets through the hoop first wins that hoop and you just move straight on to the next one."
Unlike Association Croquet (traditional), most golf croquet matches are finished within one hour.
Doug Stewart said the inaugural golf croquet tournament in Warrnambool, held from Tuesday to Thursday, had gone "exceptionally well".
He said players were already putting pressure on his team to run the tournament again despite wild weather this week.
Stewart said hail had stopped play for only a few minutes during the tournament which featured three events and more than 40 competitors.
Portland's John Murfitt took out the singles block A, Drysdale's Fay Harrison took out singles B and Eastern Park's Margaret Watts claimed the singles C.
Barrie Wuttke and Joyce Woods took out the doubles A, Cathy Wuttke and Kathie Pitt claimed the doubles B and Anne Fawkner and Valmai Hood enjoyed success in the doubles C.
Wuttke and Pitt then succeeded when they played Fawkner and Hood in a B versus C playoff.
Fay Harrison and John de Trafford won the handicap doubles A, Russell Kelly and Ed Chatwin took out handicap doubles B and Tony Pye and Lynne Pye took victory in the handicap C.
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