Archives for Bowls Wales

Para Home Nations

September 6, 2022 | Comments Off

Wales started well against a strong England team on the pleasant Clarence Park greens and at one stage we’re ahead in 4 of the 7 games but in the end had to settle for 2 points after securing one win. It was a similar scenario in the second game against Scotland where Wales were looking good but once again, we faltered in the closing stages and instead of winning 9-5 we lost by that margin. The second day saw us put in a good performance against England to draw 6-6 and in the final set of matches against Scotland we
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WELSH CROWN GREEN BOWLING ASSOCIATION- Welsh Qualifier for the British Centenary Mixed Pairs Comp. 2022

August 30, 2022 | Comments Off

The Mixed Pairs qualifier and Welsh final day was held at Craig-y-Don BC on Sunday 28th August 2022. Referees on the day were, DT Evans, Alan Davies, Arthur Peake and Richard Haywood. Entry was substantially higher this year with 17 mixed pairs contending on the day. The early rounds got underway with Nicola Boulton and partner Tom Loundes taking an excellent win 21-11 for their first game. Paul and Marie Hallett also progressed to the next round along with Gary and Sian Maddox, and Linda Williams with partner Ritchie Jameson. These four eventually made the semi final stage. Here Linda
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Welsh Disability Pairs – 14th July

July 15, 2022 | Comments Off

Write up from Stephen Rees: Another good day for our bowlers at Cardiff. Our learning disability bowlers had two pairs qualify from last weeks heats and progressed to the quarter-finals of the Welsh Learning Disability Outdoor Pairs competition today. Both managed to get through their Quarter-Final games this morning, and played their Semi-Finals this afternoon. Naomi Baelz and Millie Campbell won their Semi-final by a big margin. Philip Baylis and Harry Gwatkin got off to a slow start in their semi and were seven shots to one down at the half way point. both the boys did well to recover
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Update: Review of Bowls in Wales

July 11, 2022 | Comments Off

Work on the independent review of Bowls in Wales is now well underway. We have recently completed a survey of the Bowls community –thanks to the 600 of you who responded. We are now working on the next phase of the review -a series of interviews with key people/groups, public meetings and focus groups. As you can imagine, getting all of these in place is taking some time, but don’t worry –the work is continuing! We plan to host meetings on a regional basis -with at least one in North Wales, one in South West Wales, one or two in
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Review of bowls in Wales: progress update

June 24, 2022 | Comments Off

First of all, a huge thank you to everyone that has expressed an interest in the review so far and, in particular to the nearly 600 of you that took the time to complete the survey. The survey has provided a very rich set of data to analyse and to shape the next stages of the review. To those of you who shared email addresses and asked to be kept informed, more detailed reporting and analysis will be shared with you as we get further into the process. In addition, we will be in touch to invite you to a
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Welsh Veterans Finals Day – 1st June 2022 – held at the Caernarfon Bowling Club.

June 9, 2022 | Comments Off

The Quarter Finals saw the following results: John Bonatti (Coed Talon) – 21 Geraint Roberts (Prestatyn Highbury) – 9 Elfyn Jones (Caerwys) – 21 Phil Holmes (Prestatyn Highbury) – 11 Kerrie Jones (Gresford Colliery) – 21 Bob Jones (Mold Rec) 15 Brian Hayes (Esclusham) – 21 Kevin Williams (Craig Y Don) – 15. The Semi Finals were dominated by the Jones’ with Elfyn beating John 21/12 and Kerrie beating Brian 21/11. The final was for the most part dominated by Kerrie who from 7/7, took what appeared to be an unassailable 20/10 lead. But with Elfyn finding his form
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WELSH CROWN GREEN BOWLING ASSOCIATION 2022 JUNIOR MERIT FINAL.

June 6, 2022 | Comments Off

After a two year absence the Crown Green world in Wales was pleased to hold the Junior Merit Final – this year at Abergele Bowling Club on Sunday 29th May. The event was well attended, as you might expect, and Abergele welcomed parents, grand-parents, past Presidents of the WCGBA and BCGBA, officials and sixteen excited players. Entries were much reduced with Covid preventing this event, meaning that many former junior players were now no longer eligible to enter. Our host was Deputy President of the WCGBA, Jack Hunt with current President, Simon Walker, Patron John Percy and WCGBA Management members
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WORLD BOWLS & IIBC WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS BRISTOL INDOOR BOWLS STADIUM – 25th MAY to 29TH MAY

May 18, 2022 | Comments Off

Following the lifting of Covid19 restrictions World Bowls and the IIBC held the first major indoor championships, sixty four bowlers from twenty nine different countries took part in the event hosted by the Bristol Club. Robert Chisholm, Kerry Packwood, and Amy Williams represented Wales. The competition was made up of a men’s singles, ladies singles and mixed pairs events with the first three days being in groups with a round robin format and the best of two sets with a tie break if required. Men’s Group 3. Robert Chisholm beat Mark McGreal from the Isle of Man 2 – 0.
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Home Nations Disability Bowls Event

April 29, 2022 | Comments Off

Wales produced their best ever performance in a Home Nations Disability Bowls event when despite finishing third behind England and Scotland at Solihull the standard of play by most of the Welsh players was of a high standard, a point not overseen by England and Scotland management and players who were both impressed by the improvement of our National team. Swansea’s Toby Warren returned 3 wins and a draw from his 4 matches and was closely followed by Ffrith duo Kevin and Babs Woolmore who both had 3 wins and a defeat. Cardiff’s Allan Jones directed by Murray MacDonald teamed
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Review of Bowls in Wales

March 8, 2022 | Comments Off

On behalf of BowlsWales and the National Governing Bodies for the Indoor, Outdoor, Short Mat and Crown Green forms of the game, I am pleased to announce that we have commissioned an independent review of the sport in Wales. This will be a wide ranging and independent review, covering multiple areas including: Governance Structure Communications Safeguarding Development Performance Coaching and officiating PR and marketing Equality, diversity and inclusion We have commissioned Counsel Ltd (www.counselltd.com) to undertake the review on our behalf. We expect the review to take around 4-5 months to complete, though it may need longer. We are committed
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