club competition rules
Please Note .....
GROUND MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE
Continental Landscapes maintain the green on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Internal competition matches should be arranged from 2pm onwards on those days.
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GROUND MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE
Continental Landscapes maintain the green on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Internal competition matches should be arranged from 2pm onwards on those days.
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Posted 17-04-2024
Teddington Bowling Club
A short guide to the club’s knock-out competitions
by Gerrard Raven (Club Secretary)
I thought it might be helpful, especially to newer members, to put out a short note explaining how each competition works.
Knock-out competitions
In the case of the knock-out competitions, once entries are collated, charts will appear in the men’s changing room showing who is drawn to play against whom. It is then up to each pair to arrange a date for a match, and if needed, a marker to officiate. Dates will be given for when the various rounds – first round, quarter finals etc – should be completed. The finals of each competition will take place on Finals Weekend, which this year is September 7-8. In entering any competition, you are in effect declaring that you will if necessary make yourself available to play that weekend.
We now move to brief notes on each competition in turn.
Singles Championship
This is the Club’s premier competition, and is open to all members. Each player has four bowls, and the winner is the first to 21 shots.
Singles Handicap
This is similar in format to the Championship, but more experienced players are handicapped. In the case of a match against a player who won a major championship the previous year playing a new member, the handicap could amount to seven shots. The handicapped player therefore starts the match with a score of minus seven compared with his/her opponent’s 0. Again the winner is the first to 21, so the handicapped player must score 28 shots (needing 7 to get to 0) before his opponent scores 21.
Singles Knapman
This is a shorter format competition, again with each player having four bowls. In all rounds before the final, it is played over 15 ends. There is therefore a greater chance of an “upset” result since a player going seriously behind in the early stages can find it very difficult to recover in time. The Knapman Final is played over 18 ends.
Singles Allen Cup: This is an excellent competition for less experienced bowlers since anyone who has ever won either the Championship or the Handicap may not take part. The players this time have only three bowls, and the winner is the first to 21 shots.
The Open Pairs: Again, a good competition for the relative novice. Competitors are split equally into seeds and non-seeds, so that each pair consists of one of each. This can lead to some close matches. Each heat consists of up to three seven-end sets , with the winning pair the first to two sets.
The Grove Dowsett: This is not a knock-out, but a teams competition which stretches over most of the summer. Last year, for instance, there were four teams of four or five players each. Each team fielded two of its members on Friday afternoons to play 15 ends against one of the other teams. These 15 ends were split into three sets of five ends, so that points were available for each end as well as for the overall result. Each team has a captain who decides who plays on a particular Friday, but participants can expect to play regularly, but by no means on every Friday.