Phear Park Outdoor Bowling Club Exmouth

What a great day we had on Saturday.
Staff and friends of Holly Tree Inn came along for a game.
We started with some coaching then the teams of three had a match amongst themselves. Playing a Bowls Devon game.
The sun shone and everyone was enjoying the afternoon. It wasn't long before the competitive side came out on some rinks! The overall winners were Faye, Martyn, and Jack🏆
Well done guys. We went back to The Holly Tree for some well earned cold drinks.

On Saturday the 28th June Phear Park ran their annual Dick Mann Triples Competition where mixed triples compete for this internal shield. The format is a drive where players move to a new rink after 4/5 ends and the overall winners are those whose score has the largest difference to the teams they have played.

This year the winners were the triple of Nigel Oates, Roger Pedlar and skip Sarah Westacott with an impressive +22 shot difference.

The afternoon was very enjoyable - especially the excellent cream tea.

Phear Park Bowling Club have had a busy May and June so far, but not for all the right reasons.

May started beautifully with some very enjoyable games, Heavitree, Bradninch, and Uffculme.

Our first being away to Heavitree, which sadly we didn't come out in top, we finished the game 59-55 so only a margin. However, we did win on one rink with a great score of 20 points played by Keith Raffel, Nigel Oates and skipped by Sarah Westacott.

Playing host to Bradninch, we unfortunately sustained another loss, 61-67. But similar to the Heavitree game, we were successful on one rink, players Sarah-Jane Cairns, John Whyte and Skip Sarah Westacott had a 19-15 point win.

Off to Uffculme then, and finally successful, winning 70-53. With a stand out rink skipped by David Hawkins, Nigel Oates the second and lead by John Horne, with a spectacular 24-8 lead.

Then in the beginning of June we had news from our green keeper. He had noted a problem with the green and after some investigation, he found that we had quite a bad infestation of crane fly larvae. These can cause devastating effects to greens as they feed on the grass and roots leaving it in a bad way. We had to close our green for a little while to allow the treatment to be carried out. We are back up and running and hopefully many more games to come this season.

Join us tomorrow 11.00 -2.00 for our Bowl Bash. All equipment supplied, just wear flat shoes. Refreshments will be provided too 😋😀

Come along on Saturday 25th May and try bowls for free! We will have coaches there to teach and some lovely refreshments too! All you need is flat shoes.

What a great turn out for our Open Day yesterday 10th May. Lots of fun had by new and existing members.

President's Day was held on a lovely sunny and warm afternoon and the format of the game was 'Yardstick' where any bowls within one yard count as shots. Mid game we had sweet and savoury treats, all baked by our President Bob Baker. Very appropriate surname name Bob!

The winners of this competition were:

Sue Smith

Brian Phalby

Martin Rock

Hi folks, this is a reminder to anyone interested in trying bowls that we are hosting an awareness table in Tesco's main store on Salterton Road on Thursday 1st May from 11.00am to 2.00pm. You will be able to meet and chat to the secretary and members of the club, see and handle the bowls themselves and find out all about us.

We are also having an open day on Saturday 10th May 10.00am to 4.00pm. again it is an opportunity to see the club itself and try your hand at playing. We welcome new and experienced players who are looking to join a small but very friendly club with lots of fun to be had. Free coaching and bowls will be provided, please bring flat soled shoes if possible.

We look forward to seeing you!

Registration day today, club open from 10.00 to 1.00.

This week Phear Park played host to two friendly games, the first was on Monday 17th June against Paignton Bowling Club and this resulted in a draw. The second game on Sunday was against Uffculme and resulted in a good win for Phear Park of 28 shots to 70.

Playing against Paignton Bowling Club were: -

B Vanstone, N Oates, B Baker

L Nelson, J Whyte, B Stone

M Rock, J Dill, J Robins

A Catchem, S Smith, D Hawkins

Playing against Uffculme Bowling Club were: -

S Smith, R Tatchell, R Davidson

J Horne, B Pemberton, J Robins

N Oates, D Hawkins, S Westacott

The best performing rink of the day was the one skipped by Rod Davidson.