SOUTH Tamworth Bowling Club is about to launch exciting tournaments.
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The Bob Fowler Memorial Triples will be run at STBC in October, with more than $6000 in prize money up for grabs.
In what is shaping as a big month for the club, it will also host the month-long Bring A Buddy Twilight Carnival on a Friday nights in October and a new pairs tournament.
The pairs tournament will start mid-October and be played on Wednesday night.
“The Bob Fowler Memorial Triples is going along well,” said the club’s bowls organiser Phil Johnson.
“We have 24 or 25 teams entered and expect that to fill up to a maximum 28 teams.
“We’re looking forward to the Bring A Buddy Triples too. It will run for five weeks.”
It’s an exciting time for lawn bowls at the STBC, and the club’s chief executive officer Owen Walker is sure the events will create interest among bowlers.
Walker said the focus of the new events is to encourage people to take up the sport.
He said for the triples event, one player must not be a regular bowler.
“We’ve also completed a few of our major club events too,” he said. “Great to see Nic Golledge win his fifth singles club championship. Nigel McCarthy and Brad Hogan also won their first major event when they won the club pairs.
“Christine Myers and Debbie Quick also won the district pairs then played the regional playoffs in Gunnedah and won both games. They are now off to Taren Point for the state pairs in October.
“Debbie also won the club singles and played in the Champion of Champion singles but was unsuccessful. She also won selection in the Country v Metro representative game and helped Country to win.
“We’ve also just had the state pennants [sixth grade] as well. That was huge for the club. We’ve had a lot of great feedback from that.”
Sixteen clubs from across the state were represented in Tamworth for the state pennants, with South Tamworth and Tamworth City hosting the event. Taree Railway won the pennant by beating Kempsey Macleay RSL in a close final at South Tamworth.
Mavis Borham was the manager of the Taree Railway team and was part of a celebration for the club’s second pennant. They had won a state second-grade pennant in 2003.
“It was a great win for the boys,” Bortham said. “They really did play well all through. Only lost one game during the season.”
Bortham might have been the lucky charm too. It was her first time managing a Taree Railway team.
“The only game I missed we lost,” she said with a grin while also thanking the STBC for providing such a warm and hospitable venue on outstanding greens.
“It was a magnificent weekend played on the best greens we’ve ever seen. I’ve never seen greens like it,” she said.
Golledge agreed.
“Mick [greenkeeper Mick Woods] has done a brilliant job with them,” he said.
Golledge celebrated his fifth STBC singles club championship with a 31-13 win over Danny Daley.
“It was a good win,” he said. “A little unexpected though. Danny has been playing well and I haven’t been playing that much. It was pretty special though.”
The 32-year-old, a long-time barman at the club, cemented his entry into the $20,000 Country Music Capital Men’s Prestige Pairs at South in mid-October.
The unique and prestigious new lawn bowls tournament is being promoted by the STBC.
“I’m playing with Pud,” Golledge said of Scott Thorning. “Should be good.”
Golledge is preparing for other major bowls events too, with a Central Northern District Bowling Association champion of champions singles event coming up, along with Bob Fowler CNDBA Bowler of the Year Award events.
Golledge has won the BOTYA award before but believes he hasn’t been playing enough events to figure in that prestigious title at the moment.
For the Bob Fowler Memorial Triples, he will play with Thorning and Terry Cummings.
