Bowls Observer

27/07/2024

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The National championship of crown green bowls

27/07/2024

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The national championships of crown green bowls, live from Pennfields Bowling Club in Wolverhampton

13/07/2024

https://www.youtube.com/live/LWXNbOkj_4s?si=q6IuzYCcBrCkycAw

Live broadcast of the Ladies National Championships from Barrow-in-Furness

29/06/2024

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The 2024 Tom Melling Memorial singles competition held at The Windle Bowling Club in St Helens. This was played on Sunday 12th May 2024.A big thanks to Tom's...

27/05/2024

2022 BCGBA Men's Champion of Champions

This event was originally a PPV broadcast and this is a trimmed down recording which covers most of the competition.The winners of county merits and open com...

19/05/2024

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On a glorious day on the Fylde coast, Fleetwood Bowling Club was host to a 1-day competition for male over 50 years of age.This is the video of the semi-fina...

19/05/2024

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The British Crown Green Bowling Association 2022 Ladies Senior Merit. After qualifying from their regional event, the best go to this event, essentially the ...

14/05/2024

Roy Armson, a true bowling legend

Roy ArmsonOn Wednesday of last week, we gathered to pay our respects to a man who became one of the most important and influential people to be involved in crown green bowls.Roy Armson was on

06/05/2024

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This competition was organised by Chris Livesey and the officials at Butts Park Community Bowling Club in Leigh (Lancashire). It was played on the Bank Holid...

04/05/2024

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The final of the 2024 Peter Marrow Memorial Pairs held at the Bellingham Club in Wigan.The final was contested by the pairings of Wayne Ditchfield and Kevan ...

27/04/2024

https://bowlsobserver.co.uk/2024/04/27/wigan-subs-classic-2024/

Wigan Subs Classic 2024 27th April 2024 Steve Davies News 0 Wigan Subscription Club Finals night Graeme Wilson 2023 Wigan Subs Classic Champion The draw for this years Wigan Subscription Classic has been published and once again this well-run competition has been well supported. Last year’s winner...

20/04/2024

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The final of the 2023 BCGBA Ladies Champion of Champions held at Monk Sports in Warrington. The final was between Jenny Moore and Linda Williams and was play...

29/03/2024

24/03/2024

https://youtu.be/jIG8rOdChlw

This event was held on Saturday 8th July 2023, where qualifiers from across the country gathered at Tarleton Bowling Club, which is between Southport and Pre...

06/03/2024

Panel Challenge Cash Matches - March 2024

Held at the home of the British Professional Crown Green Bowling Association (The Panel), two cash challenge matches were held on Saturday 2nd March 2024. Th...

13/02/2024

https://bowlsobserver.co.uk/2024/02/13/bcgba-updates-its-disciplinary-policy/

Crown Green Bowls' National Governing Body, the British Crown Green Bowling Association (BCGBA), has just published its updated Disciplinary policy. This document, and last year's original, owed a

30/09/2023

Mick Lynch Memorial Competition 2023

This competition was held at the Brownmoor Brooke Bowling Club in Crosby (which is just to the north of Liverpool overlooking Liverpool Bay). The competition...

24/09/2023

2023 Fleetwood Waterloo Ladies Trophy Final

01/08/2023

https://bowlsobserver.co.uk/2023/08/01/simon-coupe-claims-the-senior-merit/

Simon Coupe British Senior Merit Champion 2023Simon Coupe was crowned Crown Green bowls national champion after a long and successful day at Heaton Park in Greater Manchester. Simon has been wi

17/07/2023

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The Wigan Subscription Classic final was played on 2nd July 2023 at the famous Wigan Subscription Club. This year's finalists were Graeme Wilson and Neil Bit...

02/05/2023

The Fleetwood Waterloo Spring Handicap 2023

This video contains the semi-finals and final of the 2023 Fleetwood Waterloo Spring Handicap.The last four players were Gareth Jones, Martin Gilpin, Paul Dud...

22/09/2022

The 2022 Talbot Trophy final between Phil Lee & Dave McDermott, played at the Layton Institute in Blackpool.

15/07/2022

The final of this year's Wigan Subs Classic.
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The 2022 Wigan Subscription Classic Final between Danny Sillitoe and Chris Mordue. This was played on Sunday 3rd July at the famous Wigan Subscription Club.

05/07/2022

https://bowlsobserver.co.uk/2022/07/05/lancashire-join-the-favourites-in-county-semis/

Lancashire won the group of 3 to join the usual suspects of Warwick & Worcester (to save typing they will be known as W&W for the rest of this article), Yorkshire, and Shropshire in the BCGBA

03/07/2022

https://bowlsobserver.co.uk/2022/07/03/bcgba-youth-competition-confirmed-for-windle/

Windle Bowling Club in St Helens (Photo courtesy of Windle BC)A new competition being run by the BCGBA this year is aimed at the 18 - 25 age group. Each county has until the end of July to le

24/03/2022

https://bowlsobserver.co.uk/2022/03/24/bcgba-annual-reports/

The afternoon of BCGBA annual meetings can be quite sedate affair. After filling up on the buffet, and feeling thankful they've survived another rules revision, delegates relax (some become too relax

08/03/2022

https://bowlsobserver.co.uk/2022/03/08/the-results-from-the-bcgba-rules-revision-meeting/

The annual rules revision meeting can be a controversial thing. An early start on a winter’s morning followed by a battle to find somewhere to park. A brew and chat with people you haven’t seen f

04/03/2022

https://bowlsobserver.co.uk/2022/03/04/new-venture-bowls-grand-tour-reaches-its-finals-day/

Bar Lane Bowling Club, Astley Bridge, Bolton, BL1 7JDOne of the biggest success stories bowls has had in the last few years is the creation of a new bowls tour. The brainchild of Dave Kirby, this

22/02/2022

https://bowlsobserver.co.uk/2022/02/21/world-club-championship-draw/

The 2022 World Club Championship has been published with the competition starting in a few weeks.The last time this was played was in 2019, incidentally the first time it was held at the impressive

15/01/2022

https://bowlsobserver.co.uk/2022/01/15/bcgba-agm-postponed/

The 3rd Saturday of January is the traditional date the annual meeting of the British Crown Green Bowling Association. This year it has once again fell victim to the public health restrictions that p