It's winter, but you can still play & enjoy bowls!
Did you miss our last issue of Friday Flash...
This day in sporting history...
1952 — Yvette Williams (later Corlett) won the long jump to become New Zealand’s first female Olympic medallist.
2000 — Tiger Woods, at 24, becomes the youngest player to win the career Grand Slam with a record-breaking performance in the British Open
on the Old Course at
St. Andrews.
A natural
bias...
Jim Espie is a past member of Remuera Bowling Club. Now in his mid-90s, he is still playing bowls at his eastern suburb's retirement village.
Jim says he first played bowls in the quarantine station in Apia, Samoa during, the polio epidemic in 1948.
Here he is delivering his 'bowl'... a husked coconut! Jim says the shape of the coconut gave the bowl
a natural bias.
WinterClub 2021
Date: 25 July 2021
It's WinerClub finals this Sunday...
Headquarters - Remuera Bowls
8.15 am - live draw
9.00 am - match play starts
We started with 40 teams in this year's WinterClub and after three rounds, eight teams qualified for the finals. Congratulations and good luck to those teams.
We're sure the bowlers would love to see club members, family and friends there in support - so come one and all to cheer them on.
Post-section (clause 11) in the conditions of play has been updated - read changes here.
Royal Oak Rockets
reign supreme...
Date: 16-18 July 2021
Congratulations to the new National Champ of Champs Men's Triples titleholders from Royal Oak Bowls - Mike Galloway, Martin Dixon
and Gavin Brown.
Their consistent form through the season was paying dividends as the Royal Oak Rockets team worked their way through section play. They fended off North Harbour 16-12 in the semi-final to meet the team from Kaikorai, to then take the final 14-10.
It was classic teamwork where every member contributed great bowls throughout the match. Gavin Brown was consistent as lead, setting up the team on many of their ends. Both Martin and Mike kept the pressure on the opposing team to come out comfortable winners. It's a great win gents, well done.
Our ladies from New Lynn did their best. But
alas, with two wins and two losses, they didn't qualify to post-section. It was a great effort nonetheless.
You can read Bowls NZ article on their win here.
National Champ of Champs
Fours...
Date: 23-25 July 2021
This week, the Auckland champs head to Pukekohe to compete in the National Champ of Champ Fours.
Wishing lots of luck to Karen Hema, Lisa Prideaux, Linda Ralph and Judi Wong from Carlton Cornwall and to Warren Adams, Keshwa Gounter, Tom King and Nick Thompson from Mangere. We hope your winning ways continue for this weekend's competition.
Click on this link to view the draw
To find out the results and to get links for live streaming - click on the button
Open Under 26 Pairs
- any combination pairs across any region
- homestay accommodation can be arranged
- it is an open event
- live streaming
- entry fee $50 per team
- great total prize pool
Click here to...
- read conditions of play
- view event info
Hunter Bowls
Ultimate Bowls NZ is back...
When: Saturday 31 July from 10.30 am to 9.30 pm
Sunday 1 August from 8.00 am to 5.00 pm
Where: New Lynn Bowling Club, Auckland
30 teams from around the country will converge on the New Lynn Bowling Club on
31 July - 1 August 2021, to compete in the official NZ Ultimate Bowls qualifying event. More than 240 matches will be played throughout this action-packed two-day event in the unique Ultimate Bowls format.
Matches are just 25 minutes long and every bowl delivered can score points - touchers, 1st shot, 2nd shot, 3rd shot and lead's shot. The winning team will travel to Australia in December to take on the world's best during the 'Ultimate Week' for their share of the $500,000 prize pool.
The format seamlessly integrates tailor-made technology to deliver a most efficient and vibrant bowls event to hit the bowls circuit. Automated player and team performance statistics are available at the touch of a button, including section standings, current scores and post-section ladders... real-time updates are like no other bowling event. Go along and check it out!
Live streaming of matches will be on their Facebook page on 1 August and to keep you up to speed automated live scoring and points tables will be available from their website ultimatebowls.com.au.
Looking for bowlers
Auckland Bowling Club is on the hunt for new bowlers!
All bowlers... 1-5, men and women alike... are welcome to be part of the oldest bowling club in the Southern Hemisphere - to not only make history but to ensure the future of bowling continues on!
QuizMania
Royal Oak Bowls and Bridge Park Bowling Club’s BDO, Alastair McKenzie, has been busy organising successful Winter quizzes at both clubs.
Royal Oak had an amazing 190 people at their first-ever Quiz Night in mid-June while Bridge Park attracted 60 to the first of a series of six consecutive Quiz Nights last Friday. I’m really pleased‘ said Alastair. ‘The Royal Oak Quiz attracted 80% who’d never been inside the clubhouse before. It gave us a great platform to showcase our facilities and to sell membership opportunities and our venue hire options. And we raised nearly $1,000 for the Child Cancer Foundation.’
At Bridge Park, I worked with the local Business Association that wanted to use the Quiz Series as a Fundraising opportunity. Once again at Bridge Park the Quiz Series has given us a chance to bring people into the club who we’d normally never see and to showcase our terrific location and venue.’
Both events were fantastically successful and are going to be repeated.
‘At Royal Oak, we’re going to make these Quiz Nights quarterly and the Business Association is already talking about another Quiz Night Series at Bridge Park later in the year’ said Alastair.
The Quiz providers at both clubs were Believe It or Not.
Club events
Many of the clubs run a variety of social and bowls events over the cooler months.
To find out what's on click this link to view club events OR simply contact a club close to you by using this find a club link.
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