Entering Events
Please see your club captains early in the season and they will help you enter these events.
Club championships are defined as the separate men’s and women’s events (singles, pairs, triples and fours) that go on to the champion of champion Bowls Canterbury Centre play-offs. Other Club trophy events such as Handicap Singles, Mixed Pairs, Husband and Wife Pairs are also there for you to enter.
Please read the club Handbook thoroughly you will see the programme of events and the conditions of play. Entries usually close one week before the event or on a specified date. It costs $2.00 per player to enter any club championship or club trophy event and you pay this with your entry to the competition. You enter events by writing your name – or the names of your team – on the entry forms provided.
As an Under 5’s player you will want to play in all the Under 5’s events, men’s and women’s singles and pairs. There is also a first & second year singles championship for women and Colts for men. If you are not in a Team and would like to play, indicate this on the availability form you receive so that the Match Committee can attempt to match you up into a team.
Read up our club Handbook and you will see that, depending on the number of entries, club championship events will either be played under a two-life system or a round robin system. Club trophy events this year will be played under qualifying systems that will be decided by the Match Committee on an event by event basis. You’ll quickly get the hang of how the various systems work – and any member can help explain things.
Caution about entering events. Don’t over commit yourself or enter without checking the follow up date or dates for playing in the events – meaning that if you survive the opening day games you also have to be available for subsequent play. Of course, if you happen to be ill, or there is some unexpected or compelling reason why you become unavailable, you will need to arrange a substitute or replacement for team events but obviously not for singles.
Under 5’s can enter Open events as well and you enter the same way as described above. We also have handicap singles competition. You enter and the club selectors give you what they deem to be an appropriate handicap, with the idea of giving the whole field a roughly equal chance.
Match Ladies & Men’s Match Committees are:
P Low, P Looker M Trent
D Fitzgibbon, T Hogg, B McKendry
Note: Champion of Champion Canterbury Events
Club championship winners at Morrison Avenue automatically qualify to represent the club in the Centre champion of champion play-off events. If you qualify for a champion of champion event, our club will take care of the entry form and entry fee.
Please note that for Men, each Championship event has cut off dates for completion of all rounds, this is to ensure that the Final is played in time for the Club to enter the winner with the Canterbury Centre.
If you fail to play your game by the cut off date you WILL be disqualified.
Interclub competitions
Our club selects and enters teams in various grades of the Bowls Canterbury Interclub. There are separate competitions for men and women. Interclub is open to all players including ‘Under 5’s players’ and is played on specified weekend dates. There is also a separate Under 5’s Interclub competition played as a twilight mid-week event and this is a mixed competition – any combination – meaning our selectors pick the best possible team or teams irrespective of gender.
You will receive an availability sheet on which you can indicate that you wish to play in any particular event (if selected) If you get the chance to play interclub – grab it – its good fun and camaraderie and great experience playing as part of a team at other bowling clubs in the Centre.
Your Selectors are:
Ladies:, Lyn Wilmott, Anne Caldwell, Rose Carson
Mens Mid-week Selectors: G Low, T Hogg
Mens: Barry Doherty, B J McDonald, Trevor Wilson
Mid week tournaments
If you’re a student or working a full time day job you won’t be much interested in these tournaments, but for ‘retired’ bowlers (and a few self-employed bowlers) there is a very active mid-week tournament schedule in Bowls Canterbury. See the Centre Handbook for a complete list. Our Club runs a monthly ‘Open Triples’ on the 4th Friday plus there are a Women’s Triples run in February. They are always very popular. Bowlers tend to support their own club tournaments and then they often also play regularly at nearby clubs in their tournaments. It usually costs around $10.00 to play. The usual format is to play three games with a random draw. Each game will be approximately 1 hour 10 minutes. The games normally start at 12.30 and with afternoon tea included with finish at around 4.30pm. You enter our club tournaments by giving your name to the particular Tournament Organizer or the Club Tournament Manager. To enter tournaments at another club you ring the contact name listed in the Centre Handbook. Under 5’s bowlers are frequently asked to play in teams being entered by experienced bowlers – but there is also nothing to stop you entering your own Under 5’s team.
Again, good fun and a really good experience when learning to play on greens surfaces, other than Morrison Avenue.