Penicuik Petanque Club

Penicuik Pétanque club are proud to have Scott Watson and Donald Scarr back on the national stage, representing Scotland this weekend for the second time this year at the Petanque England Interregional Championships in Weston‑Super‑Mare. A fantastic achievement and well‑deserved recognition for their hard work and skill. Good luck to both

Our penultimate Lothian and Borders league match today. It was a match against Walkerburn Petanque club. We fielded a side of mainly new player that only started playing this year. After an hard fought match Penicuik came out on top.

It is a great honour for the club to have three players, Catherine Sweeting, Scott Watson and Donald Scarr, representing Scotland this coming weekend at the 25th Home Nations Championships in Stirling. We wish them every success and are immensely proud of their achievement.

The club held its GM Pest Control Doubles competition today, and the weather was very kind to us, making for a fantastic day enjoyed by everyone.After a hard fought contest, Tommy Ross and Peter Smith emerged as worthy winners of the trophy. David Scott and Stephen Miller put in an excellent performance to finish in second place.Congratulations to all who took part and helped make it such a successful day.

For the new players maybe a place to find your boules you want and for the longer established players maybe a chance to get rid oh the boules in the cupboard you don’t use anymore.

**NEW VENTURE ALERT**

We are Emma and Mattie. We both have a passion for petanque! We are also both coaches in Scotland and enjoy helping people to enhance their talent for the game and fulfil their potential 🙂 Through this we have noticed that a lot of people find petanque and feel instantly drawn to it for its community, accessibility and low cost.

However, this means that people often rush into buying their first set of boule and later discover that they are too big/small, too heavy or the wrong design for their preference, hand size and or strength. Then they have the issue of needing better fitting boule and the need to sell on the ones they already have or they lie dormant in your cupboard never to be seen again! 🥹

This is the inspiration behind our aptly named new business - Rusty Baws. We would like to offer up our services to help people find the right boule (type of boule, pattern, size and weight) for them and ideally early in their petanque journey!

We both have personal experience of the difference playing with the right boule can come with, and know how many of our petanque pals have boule sitting about that deserve to be loved by the right person!

We encourage you all to approach us with any boule you would like to consider selling to help us get this off the ground/terrain 😉

We will always try and pay a fair price for your boule but you are more than entitled to say no just be aware we are taking on the risk of being unable to sell them ourselves when we do buy!

Our promise when it comes to selling is that we will always endeavour to ensure that the boules we sell you will be tailored to your needs/desire. That's why our custom fitting service also can be bought as stand alone without any obligation to buy any of our boule. If we don't have the right fit for you in our inventory then we won't recommend you purchase from us, our integrity and growing the game in right way is most important to us🙂

Let's make petanque in Scotland as sustainable, affordable and accessible as we can 🌏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We hope we will be able to help you out soon players old and new to the beautiful game!

Much love,

Em and Mattie
Rusty Baws

Penicuik Petanque Club were away to Newtongrange Petanque Club today. This was our 4th match of the Lothian and Borders League competition. The weather was great for the matches. Unfortunately we lost by 4 games to 2. However all the games were close and played in a friendly competitive manner.
Our next league match is at home to Rosslyn Rhinos best.

Congratulations to our Club President Scott Watson finishing a fantastic 3rd in the 2026 SPA Men’s Singles. A great achievement for him and our club, especially considering the high class field of 50 competitors he had to negotiate

Last week, we had the pleasure of welcoming the Girl Guides to our piste for an introduction to the wonderful game of pétanque.

Although the weather was a little dull, it certainly didn’t dampen the girls’ enthusiasm or enjoyment! There was plenty of laughter, friendly competition, and new skills learned along the way. By all accounts, a great time was had by everyone involved.

We’re always delighted to welcome individuals, groups, clubs, and organisations who would like to give pétanque a try. Whether you’re a complete beginner or simply curious about the sport, we’d love to see you on the piste!

Get in touch and come and have a go!

Please see menu for next weeks Penicuik Open

We are excited to say it less than 1 week until our Penicuik Pétanque Club Open Weekend on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th June 2026.
We thought you might find this information helpful :
~*our address* is
Montgomery Park, Cranston Street, Penicuik, EH26 9BW
~*parking* is available in the streets around the Piste or alternatively there is a carpark at Bog Road Playing Fields EH26 9BZ.
~*gazebos* can be erected at the Piste
~*bring your own chairs * there are only 2 picnic tables
~*toilets* are available at the Rugby Club beside the piste
~*no smoking/vaping* on or around the piste. A designated smoking area will be confirmed
~*breakfast/lunch* will be available to buy both days at the Rugby Club. See Menu post for choices/prices.
~*tea/coffee,* water, canned juice, biscuits and traybake will be available to buy both at the Rugby Club and the Piste
~*Please bring your reusable coffee mug* -£1 for the first cup then free refills all day
~*scones* will be available to buy at the piste - hurry, they don’t last long!
~*payments* cards preferred, cash accepted (small change/notes if possible)
~*raffle* Saturday/Sunday -
£1 a strip
~*pétanque fundraiser squares * Saturday/Sunday - £2 a square(£50 prize money)
~*Premier shop* 5 minutes walk
~*REGISTRATION -8.30am for START at 9.00am *
~*practice* - available Friday evening
~*photos* will be taken. If you would like to be excluded please speak to Scott/ David/John at registration.
LOOKING FORWARD TO WELCOMING YOU ALL.
PLAY WELL but most of all HAVE FUN!