One of my clubs, Southport Bowls Club, has a popular and fun Twilight Bowls every Thursday, and I’ve always wanted to play in that. It was a chilly night, but the atmosphere was more than warm from a bunch of fun-loving members. It was great to see them again.   For $15, you … [Read more...]

From May 26th to May 28th, a tournament was held at the Burnside Lawn Bowling Club called the Barry Skinner. The Barry Skinner is a pairs game held over three afternoons or three evenings. This tournament was very well subscribed. The format is three bowl pairs playing 18 ends. The high game winner … [Read more...]

The 2025 Victoria Rotational Triples tournament was held on Monday, May 19th under variable (chilly, windy, sunny, showery) weather conditions.  Ten teams participated in a very well organized and enjoyable event.  Thanks to Garry Anderson as the tournament manager, and to the many … [Read more...]

As part of the Victoria Classic croquet tournament being held in town, our club hosted the Novice Championship portion of the event. Eight players, including three members of the Oak Bay club, competed over two days. After nine rounds of 45 minute games, Oak Bay member Jim Howard emerged atop … [Read more...]

On May 9, Mort Nelson was awarded BC Bowls Certificate of Appreciation - In appreciation of 10 years of dedicated service to our sport in the role of umpire for Bowls British Columbia, Oak Bay Lawn Bowling Club and Bowls South Island.  Congratulations Mort! Submitted by Lorne … [Read more...]

Our opening day 2025 was great success. With 11 rinks on both greens filled with over 60  keen bowlers, and the remaining rinks set up with croquet players. We were honoured with representatives from three levels of Government, MLA Diana Gibson, MP Will Greaves and Oak Bay Mayor Kevin … [Read more...]

We had a great day introducing newbies to the joy of lawn bowling. The club hosted 40 women belonging to three different clubs - the Victoria Evening Newcomers, the Victoria Womens’ Newcomers Club and the Greater Victoria Women’s Newcomers. We had planned for 24 newcomers but the overwhelming … [Read more...]

Approximately 20 members came out on Thursday April 10 to help with our major clean up.  One short mat was returned to Carnarvon House while one remained in Anderson for our Open Houses later this month. For Anderson House the rug was vacuumed, the draw masters table was returned as was the … [Read more...]

I am happy to report that our club has 5 new coaches.  They are: Doug F, Layla G, Micheal P, Jackie M and Kory S. They were part of 18 participants from Bowls South Island clubs that participated in a day long coaching course lead by Dave Mathie from the Sydney LBC. Coaches play an important … [Read more...]

A big thank you to the greens ditch cleaning team that came out on March 25. In a couple of hours the 11 volunteers removed the weeds and other undesirables from our ditches. There are still some areas that will require some more sand and or redistribution of the existing sand. Nevertheless, … [Read more...]