How To Guide
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Consider this your introduction to Lawn Bowling or, simply “Bowls”. The game has been played, in one form or another, for thousands of years, combining strategy, competition, sociability, and affordability, but mainly, a whole lot of fun. It’s a simple game to learn – and one that takes a lifetime, to master. This handout will provide you a basic outline of the game, as well as some of the signals used in the sport. And because we said this is about a whole lot of fun, some of the definitions may be here for that reason alone. Enjoy yourself and we promise to be gentle the first time. After that, you’re fair game. And now, let’s go lawn bowl!
What’s Bowls all about?Bowls is played on a large smooth grass surface, called a “green”. Equipment includes your bowls, which are large, hard resin balls with a bias to them, so that they travel along an elliptical path, rather than going straight; another small, white, smooth, ball called a “jack”; and a mat from which you bowl. The object of bowls, as in Bocce or curling, is to get your bowls closer to the jack than your opponent. This is achieved by players from each team taking turns rolling their bowls down the green toward the jack.
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