Gopal’s Strong Showing at the 2026 Nationals The 2026 Oakley Woods Canadian National Golf Croquet Open was held in Toronto and featured a strong international field of 30 players from England, the United States, Egypt, and Canada. This year’s event included more highly ranked competitors than in … [Read more...]

The annual Cowichan Bay Two-Bowl Six-Pack Tournament was held on Saturday, July 25 and Sunday, July 26, 2026, hosted by the Cowichan Lawn Bowling Club.   This unique and fast-paced event featured 14 teams from clubs across the region. Over the course of two days, … [Read more...]

For members that were busy with the Oak Bay Garagellenium on Saturday July 25th you missed a great day of bowling and croquet. Close to 60 members attended the event.  Bowlers played two 10 end games of triples and croquet players had a host of games with rotating teams of pairs. Chris and Kory … [Read more...]

The Second Annual Summer Snake Showdown croquet tournament was played in ideal summer conditions on Saturday, June 18th.  A random draw was done to create the eight teams of two players that battled through three preliminary rounds to determine the finalists.  Mitch Fumalle and Kory Swain … [Read more...]

Canada Day Fundraiser a Fun Success!   The results are in from our fun day of fundraising on Canada Day. All told the club has raised $7,265 for the CHAMPS program. This included $500 donations from each of Tony Tucker's Pharmasave on Oak Bay Avenue and Matt MacNeil of the Penny Farthing also … [Read more...]

  Over the weekend of July 11-12 the Burnside Lawn Bowling Club hosted the Ashford Mixed Triples BSI tournament. In this triples format, each team had to be skipped by a woman, inducing many nerves from this novice skip! It was a beautiful weekend filled with great weather and great bowling! … [Read more...]

The McEwan Pairs, a club men’s pairs tournament for 2026, was played on Tuesday, 14thJuly. As with a lot of these tournaments, the draw changes as a some the players were unable to make it that morning. Fortunately, we did have several players who filled in the gaps admirably. Many thanks to Arne … [Read more...]

Bobbi-Jean secured a second-place finish in the Bowls BC Provincial Singles Championships played over the past weekend and has officially qualified for the Nationals!   The Nationals will be played in North Vancouver from August 17-23.   Please join us in congratulating her on this … [Read more...]

Dogwood BSI Mixed Pairs at Vic West - Tournament Recap The Dogwood Mixed Pairs tournament was held at Vic West during the evenings of July 6th, 7th, and 8th.  Format: •  Nights 1 & 2: 32 teams competed across two time slots, with each team playing two 10-end games per … [Read more...]

Acknowledgment of Support from Croquet Canada By Gopala Gowda, Organizer, Western Canada Open Golf Croquet Croquet Canada’s generous support has strengthened Oak Bay’s ability to participate in and promote competitive croquet in our region. Their 50% subsidy toward two sets of tournament-grade … [Read more...]