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...]

The St. Paddies Day games on Saturday March 15 started off under cloudy skies and what appeared to be nonstop rain.  But did that stop the croquet and lawn bowlers - not a chance.  Well okay it did stop them - but just for a short time. After a bit of a wait the rain tapered off allowing … [Read more...]

Lake Hill LBC hosted the above mixed triples tournament on March 7-9 with 16 teams registered. Interclub short mat tournaments ceased due to COVID in 2019 and Lake Hill was the club which hosted the last one in 2019.  It was only fitting that Lake Hill started the short mat tournament rolling … [Read more...]

The past three years, Qualicum Beach has hosted an indoor full-length Triples two bowl tournament with 10 end games being played. This tournament is sponsored by Vivian Sears Realty donating $500 towards the winners. Anyone on the island can enter. There were 16 teams playing a two tier round robin … [Read more...]