YMGCR Bowls Club.
Wednesday Social Bowls Report.
Wind gusts of up to 35 kilometers made drawing close bowls a matter of luck and guess work, for the 32 players who turned out last Wednesday the 16th of September. Games were played in the north / south direction, and with the absence of any significant rainfall the greens are beginning to speed up.
Bowling their way into first place were the team of Maria Bailey and Bill Jenkins, who won first prize of $70.00 and a drink card each. Maria and Bill’s opponents, on rink 3 were Kim Silver and Simone McBain. A warm welcome to Simone who has transferred from Yarrawonga Bowls Club to YMGCR for the 2026 / 2027 season. Incidentally, it’s great to see Bill Jenkins back on the greens. Welcome back Bill.
The runners up prize was won by the team of June Hensgen and Ian Keat who pocketed $40.00 for the day’s play. June and Ian played Neville Coleman and Craig Jordan on rink 13.
The losing rink consolation prize of $20.00 was won by Trevor Kilpatrick and Peter Verlardo. Trevor and Peter’s opponents on rink 10 were Rob Lidgerwood and Les Balfour.
The first Lucky Number raffle prize of $15.00 was won by Ian Keat and the second Lucky Number prize of $10.00 was won by Neville Coleman.
Friday Social Bowls Report.
Just a reminder that this coming Friday, the 25th of September is the last day of Friday Social Bowls for the 2026 Friday Social Season. In next week’s edition we’ll provide a bumper report on the last day of Friday Social Bowls. Unfortunately, there was a glitch in the results from last Friday’s Social Bowls so, we’ll provide the results from Friday the 18th next week.
YMGCR Opening of the greens 2026 / 2027 season
YMGCR Bowls Section declared the greens open for the 2026 / 2027 bowls season last Saturday the 19th of September. As our club champions for the 2025 / 2026, Robyn Moore and Ian Brimblecombe were unavailable for the opening ceremony. Our Ladies’ and Men’s runners up from last season Lynne Baxter and Chris Horne rolled the first two bowls for the year. Lynne Baxter showed good form, drawing a toucher with her bowl and Chris Horne wasn’t too far away either.
After the opening ceremony an intra club practice match was held, which gave our bowlers a chance to tune up before the first rounds of pennant for the new season, which isn’t too far away now with mid – week pennant commencing on Tuesday the 13th of October and weekend pennant beginning on Saturday the 10th of October.
After the bell was rung at 3.30pm. all bowlers moved into the clubhouse for an afternoon tea of finger food and deserts, This brought to a close another successful opening day.
Riddle me this…
Last week we set readers the challenge of correctly answering the following riddle:
Q: What two meals can you never eat for breakfast? The answer: Lunch and dinner
This week’s riddle: Q: Two fathers and two sons are in are car but there are only three people in the car; how can this be? The answer next week, until then, good bowling.