About Lawn Bowls
Have you ever considered playing lawn bowls? Well, you should!
Lawn Bowls is a great sport that over the years is becoming
increasingly popular in Australia, among all ages.
Lawn Bowl Terms
Lawn bowls is also known as bowls or lawn bowling. This is a sport
where a ball (referred to as a bowl in this sport) is rolled as close as
possible to a smaller white ball. This smaller bowl is referred to
either as a sweetie, kitty, or jack.
Lawn bowls is played outdoors on either an artificial surface or
grass. It can also be played indoors on an artificial surface.
Lawn bowls is part of the boules family of sports. It is also similar
to petanque and also boccue.
Most of the time lawn bowls is played on a bowling green. The bowling
green is a rectangular and level grass area. It can also be an
artificial surface.
Lawn Bowl Game Popularity
The countries where bowls is most popular is the United Kingdom, some
Commonwealth countries including Australia.
How to Play Lawn Bowls
 The lawn bowls bowling green is separated into rinks. The rinks are
parallel playing strips.
In the most simplest competition, one of the competitors will flip a
coin to determine who wins the mat. The winner starts part of the
competition by placing the mat. The jack is rolled to the opposite end
of the green and that will be the target.
After the jack stops, it is put in the middle of the rink. At that
point, the competitors will try to roll their bowls in the direction of
the jack. A bowl must stop inside the area of the rink in order to
remain in play.
While the bowl is on its path, it may curve outside the boundaries
but when it stops, it must be in play. If a bowl goes into the ditch it
is out of play. The exception is if it touches a jack while it is on its
path.
The Lawn Bowl Game Surface
Lawn bowls is played on grass and variations from green to green are
common. Greens come in all shapes and sizes, fast, slow, big crown,
small crown etc. |
