What a difference a day makes! As we were organizing for the tournament on the Friday we looked out the windows and we could see the pools of water on both greens. All we could say was thank goodness we weren’t playing today. The lawn bowling gods must have been listening because we woke up on … [Read more...]

Congratulations!  We ordered $15,200.00 worth of Thrifty’s cards, which earned the club $912.00.  This broke any previous order. Thank you for participating. I will try to distribute the cards as quickly as possible. Mary … [Read more...]

The Juan De Fuca Lawn Bowling Club hosted the annual Bowl for the Cure fundraiser on September 19 & 20.  This is the final BSI tournament of the season and has sold out year after year. A format is a traditional quaddie, and teams can have as many players as they wish. Team membership can … [Read more...]

The last club croquet tournament of 2026 took place under sunny skies at the club on Saturday the 19th. Twenty-four players played four rounds with a different randomly drawn partner in each round.  The only two players to finish undefeated were Lorne Oakes and Mitch Fumalle. Lorne got first … [Read more...]

Carnarvon Cup winds down for the season. The Carnarvon Cup is a season-long men’s pairs played on Tuesday morning. Each morning a pairs draw is made up; bowling starts at 10 am. We play 14 ends for the pairs, although sometimes, if the numbers are not divisible by 4, then the draw can include a … [Read more...]

The Oak Bay Women’s Fours (aka L of the N) Bowls South Island tournament was held on the evenings of September 8, 9 and 10.  It was an intensely competitive yet wonderfully joyful tournament. Our thanks goes to The Kensington for their generous sponsorship. The winners are as … [Read more...]

The Quaddie is Back and the Standings Were Tight! Labour Day saw the return of the Quaddie to the Oak Bay Club. Last included on the club schedule back in 2022, a Quaddie has a team of four play a pair of pairs games in round one, a singles and triples game in round two and then come together for … [Read more...]

Over 60 new and experienced members attended the New Member Appreciation evening at 5:30 on Friday, September 4. The event is typically held in July but as the organizer I let it slip to September. Perhaps that “slippage” as the politicians might say was a good thing. Great weather and an amazing … [Read more...]

The BSI Greenskeepers event, the last of Mixed Triples Open Tournament, took place at Juan de Fuca LBC on Saturday, August 29.   This tournament typically has a strong turnout, and this year there were 28 teams in total. Three teams represented Oak Bay: Mary Forster with Keith Newhouse and … [Read more...]

The Vic West LBC hosted the Bert Nelson mixed Triples tournament on August 22 &23. The tournament schedule was two 14 end games each day. The format was winners played winners and losers played loser over the course of the four games  this tournament began in 1985 by its Founder Bert … [Read more...]