With the Golfie greens running fast and true due to greenskeeper Stewart Simpson’s hard work and dedication, the weekend’s bowls focus was on the much anticipated Championship Triples Bowls Final.
The team of Kyle Roberts, Don Roberts and Barry Bargwanna outplayed Peter ‘Skeet’ Goonrey, Dean ‘Bogger’ McLeod and John Goonrey to take the 2022 title with a +10 win on Sunday.
Also running true to form was lead bowler Barry Bargwanna’s uncanny ability to draw shot bowls time and time again!
Playing second, Don Roberts maximised his team’s favourable position adding fuel to the fire while Skipper extraordinaire, Kyle Roberts, also bowled true to form all day giving a magnificent demonstration of consistent, focused attention and precision bowling.
Team Goonrey/McLeod/Goonrey, try as they did, could not however douse the fire!
On the four other rinks on Sunday, 16 social bowlers enjoyed friendly banter both within their respective games and beyond!
The Rink 3 winners by a margin of +1 were Tony Brown and Karen Daly over Bian Smith and visitor Rob Renkin (Bramble Bay).
The margin on Rink 5 was +2 with David Schofield and visitor Janet Renkin winners against Peter ‘China’ Brien and Kelly Beard.
The Rink 4 winners, Mike Sargent and Allan Gardoll on +7, were the runners-up for the day after they beat David ‘Ooze’ Knight and Scott Hilton.
The overall winners on a pretty convincing +17 were the team of Doug Hudson and Craig ‘Duck’ Grimmond over Alan Knight and John ‘Shark’ Daly.
A first time George The Giraffe recipient, Scott Hilton, was happy to accept his award for his wrong biases although he did have some stiff competition!
Friday Twilight bowls kicked off with the ‘Spider’ event and, yet again, a newby won with Ray Fellows clearly chuffed by his achievement.
The winners of the night were Don Roberts and Damon Pike (another newcomer) with +8 against Kyle Roberts and Tony Polack.
Bian Smith and David ‘Ooze’ Knight dominated their game to finish with a +7 victory over Karen Daly and newcomer Andrew Roberts.
Alan Knight and Greg Clark’s +7 win against Allan Gardoll and Peter ‘China’ Brien was pretty much declared when China’s reverse (yes – backwards) delivery (aka bowl travelling with force in the opposite direction of the green) upset his equilibrium!
The team of Steve Manns and Kelly Beard finished with a +1 win over John ‘Shark’ Daly and Ray Fellows.—The Second
