Fresno Lawn Bowls Club

Bob Large receives trophy on behalf of Fresno Club

In a surprisingly warm weekend where temperatures soared into the 90′s, our own Fresno bowling team turned the table on Cambria, at least compared to last year. We ended up dominating 6 games to 2 and half our wins were not even close.

If you look closely at the bowler on the trophy (which originated this series in 1975) he is wearing a sweater and tie and long pants. We may still prefer to wear whites… but our knees do show!

Style points don't count in lawn bowling.. but these penultimate rolls both look good.

To overuse a common expression, a good time was had by all – and it was all helped along with great food dishes provided by all our good members. In their first tournament ever, Dennis and his wife Linda played very well. In fact, Dennis was an outstanding lead in both of his games – I think we have found a new competitive spirit to do us proud.

Our great rivals and friends from the coast will be visiting Fresno over the April 21 and 22 weekend.  Details to follow but format is expected to be the same as usual:

• Friendly match late Sat afternoon
• Two competitive games Sunday morning followed by lunch.

Sign up now on sheet on clubhouse door.

When the weather is warm and sunny (and it was) there is hardly a more beautiful place to bowl in northern California than at Del Mesa Carmel. Bob Dodd and Athol Foden are shown here with their borrowed local 3rd team member. We played poorly on their very slow green, but all the games were so close that we ended up only 2/3 of way down the list.

See Cambria Trip for what we have been up to in August.

Welcome all bowlers of Fresno and surrounding areas.

Did you know there is a small but keen group of Lawn Bowlers in the area? Why not come join us for this gentle low cost sport that anyone can play. See the rest of this site to find your way to our green (thanks City of Fresno), to understand the mental challenge of bowling on a bias,  and for more understanding of one of the few sports where men and women compete on the same teams in the same games.

The sport has been played since Sir Francis Drake’s days in England. Now it is your turn.

Here are all our players and the team from Cambria who came to visit over the Apr 16/17 weekend, and managed to take home our challenge trophy. While game scores were tied, they had a better average margin.  See photos section for more action from the weekend. Not shown is the great food provided mostly by the ladies of Fresno. Thank You all.

Return Match Tournament:    August 20 & 21 in Cambria.