As a warm-up for visiting bowlers to get used to the greens, a Chicken Run was held on the Friday evening with a fantastic turn out, filling a green with some fours games having to be played because of huge numbers. A great time was had by all, with mixed teams, and a chance for people to get to meet members of other teams.

On the Saturday morning bowlers arrived and played on the club’s 2nd green for the first time since it was completely re-built Congratulations to our greenkeeper Col Sinclair and all the help given by Ed Potter for a green that was absolutely magic to play on with fantastic comments over the weekend by many visiting players.

At the completion of Saturday, the leader board was tight with 3 teams winning all 3 games, and a couple of others with 2 wins and a draw.

Sunday again gave us perfect weather with bowlers arriving early all keen to bowl. The bowls hotted up with the 3 teams of all wins continuing on their winning ways after the first game, with Ross Russells’ team closing the gap with a huge win of plus 24 shots and Paul Totterdells’ team just coming away with a win on the last end with a 7 shot last end to win by 5. Peter Schroeders team went into the last game ahead of Ross Russells team by 3 shots with Paul Totterdells team in 3rd.

The last games were tight with Paul Totterdells team going down to visitors from Queanbeyan taking them out of the prize money. The Peter Schroeder team then finished their game with a 3 shot win with all eyes then on Ross Russells game with still 3 ends to play. The game was neck and neck and with a beautiful drive by Wayne Lodge of Ross Russells team they seemed to be in the box seat, unfortunately the favour was returned by Glenn in the opposing team. This pushed Ross’ team out of any chance of winning the game.