Croquet and Cocktails

Lawn Club puts a big green spin on the sports bar.

- TAMMIE TECLEMARIAM

FOR AS LONG AS any millennial or zoomer can remember, ax-throwing, trivia, and shuffleboard have been the go-to activities for the subsect of nightlife venues that might best be called "competition bars." Now, an entrant in this increasingly crowded field has appeared on the southern tip of Manhattan: Lawn Club (1 Fulton St., at South St.; thelawnclubnyc.com), a 15,000-square-foot synthetic-turf indoor park devoted to any kind of game you might play in a suburban yard. That means patrons can, for $75 an hour, choose among bocce, cornhole, and the tailgating-standby Beersbee (try to knock a bottle off a pole with a Frisbee). Booking the secluded rear co