Playing Lawn Bowls Again
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (326431)
Rockingham, Australia
November 11, 2017 7:28am CST
On Friday we met with two friends and took part in a ‘corporate bowls’ tournament. This is lawn bowls and the competition will take place over four Fridays. Most of the twenty teams don’t play bowls regularly so it’s meant to be a bit of fun. I guess the bowls club hopes they’ll get a few new members out of it.
It was a warm evening and it was very pleasant being out with a group of friends. We were up against a foursome who had played bowls before and we were getting soundly beaten when we had a stroke of luck. We were bowling two bowls each and whoever got nearest the kitty (a small white ball) gained a point for their team. If your team had two bowls closer then you gained two points.
We’d all bowl to the opposite end then gather at that end and all bowl back towards the clubhouse. So just when we thought we were going to do really badly, suddenly our eight bowls were all closer to the kitty than the opposing team’s eight, In that one round we picked up eight points which doesn’t happen very often. It was just a stroke of luck but we felt very pleased with ourselves.
We still didn’t win but we didn’t look the abject failures that we had up until that point. Hopefully next week we will do better.
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@moffittjc (118664)
• Gainesville, Florida
11 Nov 17
Is this the same as the sport of Bocce? If so, then it's a game I love to play!
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@moffittjc (118664)
• Gainesville, Florida
12 Nov 17
@LadyDuck I figured there would be some similarities between the two games! Thanks for responding!
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@moffittjc (118664)
• Gainesville, Florida
12 Nov 17
@JudyEv Oh, that must be so fun to play! I love when you add in the challenge of curved surfaces!
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@teamfreak16 (43419)
• Denver, Colorado
11 Nov 17
Sounds fun. Good luck next week!
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@Letranknight2015 (51539)
• Philippines
11 Nov 17
There's always next time, by then you have time for practice in the meantime. Don't worry you will have another chance.
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
11 Nov 17
Sounds like you had a lot of fun. You are such active person.
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
11 Nov 17
You have fun playing lawn bowls there, hope you win the next time.
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@JudyEv (326431)
• Rockingham, Australia
28 Dec 17
It's not like ten-pin bowling. The photo shows the 'green' it's played on. It might be lawn or it might be artificial turf.
@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
14 Nov 17
I'm glad you managed to catch up a bit... I hope you have fun next week and get some more points 
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@JudyEv (326431)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Nov 17
Lawn bowls seems virtually unknown in the US. Have you noticed that?
@JudyEv (326431)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Nov 17
We enjoyed our night. It's just on for four Fridays.
