Category: Friday Bowls
First National Real Estate 4th Friday Pairs – 27 September 2024
24 bowlers were in attendance to play the 4th Friday monthly pairs sponsored by First National Real Estate The Forest. The format was 2-4-2 pairs and the 3 games of 8 ends were played in windy conditions with the prospect of rain. Fortunately it did not arrive. Club Belrose welcomed one visitor to the competition—Dennis…
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Belrose Chemist Triples – 20 September 2024
26 players were challenged by windy conditions in a winners-play-winners competition. Two teams of triples played with four players because of the numbers. Visitors Elizabeth Blackwell and Bob Barnes wee welcomed. Coming in third was the team of Ian Tink, John Gray, John Clement and Neil Mills who headed those teams who had one win….
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First National Real Estate 2nd Friday Pairs – 13 September 2024
On a sunny afternoon, 34 bowlers competed in Three Bowl Pairs except for six players who matched up in a Triples Game. The winners of the Pairs games were Finlay Shepherd and Matthew Brain with a full house with Carl Walker and Alex Greig also with a full house but one fewer end, earning second…
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Barrenjoey Smash Repairs Pairs – 6 Sept 2024
Ken welcomed our 32 bowlers, and thanked our sponsors – Barrenjoey Smash Repairs for their support. Warm and windy conditions, and extremely fast greens, saw the usual 2 games of 11 ends, changed to 2 games of 9 ends. This change saw our players ending the day in a more timely manner. We had 4…
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5th Friday Pairs – 30 August 2024
We had 33 Belrose bowlers today. The format was 4 games of 3 bowl pairs (7 ends). Also in attendance were 3 visitors — Michael Curley (Pittwater BC), David Penny (Newport BC) and Russell Walker. It was a testing afternoon with strong winds and fast greens. The results were as follows: 1st– Frank and Janice Grubisich…
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First National Real Estate 4th Friday Pairs – 23 August 2024
30 bowlers played in perfect bowls conditions. While 24 participated in 12 teams of Pairs in a Round Robin 3-game contest of 3 games each, the remaining 6 played three games of Trips. The very fast No 1 Green resulted in those players on that green taking an inordinate amount of time to complete their…
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Belrose Chemist Triples – 16 August 2024
32 bowlers played in perfect still wintry conditions. While 24 participated in 8 teams of Triples in a Winners/Losers 2 game contest of 11 games each, the remaining 8 played two games of pairs on a similar basis. The best performance came from the Pairs team of Darrall Cutting and Richard Lewis with 13 ends…
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First National Real Estate 2nd Friday Pairs – 9 August 2024
On a beautiful afternoon, 28 bowlers on two greens played three games of three bowl pairs. There were no visitors to welcome.First to third place won three games but the winners were Barbara Samuels and Mike Evans on ends.Lynne and Max Gray earned second prize on margins and Helen Thomas with Peter Nixon came in…
READ MOREBarrenjoey Smash Repairs Pairs – 2 August 2024
Sunshine, torrential rain, showers and finally lovely sunny conditions tested players on Friday. Thank you for enduring the uncertainty of the weather – we didn’t really know what to expect. We had three teams with 2 wins, and 2 with the same ends won, taking the final count of margins to determine 2nd and 3rd…
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First National Real Estate 4th Friday Pairs – 26 July 2024
32 bowlers turned up for 3 games of 2-4-2 pairs (8 ends per game) in summer like conditions. Doug Murphy and Rody Manning were the overall winners on the day with 3 wins and 16 ends. John Gray and Pat McMaster took out second prize (3 wins and 14 ends). Harvey Bowen and Grahan Stewart…
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