WHAT IS LAWN BOWLING/BOWLS?
Click to enlarge pictures Lawn Bowling (or bowls), is perhaps the oldest of all ball games. It was played in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and spread to Europe by the 10th century. The modern lawn Bowls is an outdoor game in which players roll balls about 125mm in diameter) called bowls , over a flat surface called a lawn bowling green very much the same as a golf green. The object is to get as many bowls as possible nearest a target, a smaller ball called the jack which must be rolled a minimum of 23m. Bowlers must stand with at least one foot on a rubber mat in the center of the rink. The front edge of the mat must be no less than 2m from the ditch. The bowls are rolled alternately by the opposing players toward the jack that is 6.3cm in diameter. Each bowl nearer the jack than any bowl rolled by an opponent scores a point. Bowls are termed dead if They travel less than 14m from the mat, Come to rest outside the rink, or Go into the ditch without touching the jack. Bowls that hit th
