The 6th RBSC Lawn Bowls Open Triples Tournament was held at the Royal Bangkok Sports Club over five days from 26 to 30 July. This popular tournament had been postponed for four years due to Covid-19 but returned strongly this year with 94 teams taking part from 8 countries.
Hong Kong was best represented at the tournament with 66 teams taking part from 21 clubs. Thailand fielded 9 teams from 7 clubs, India 6 teams from 3 clubs, Malaysia 3 teams from 2 clubs, Singapore 2 teams from 2 clubs, Vietnam and Macau each fielded 1 team from 1 club, while from Japan there were 6 teams including three from YC&AC.
The YC&AC teams were composed of Yoko Ishiguro, Toshi Kurosawa and Shigemitsu Itoh on Team A …
Yuko Sasaki, Ippei Iwasaki and George Ishiguro on Team B …
and Motoko Tsuyama, Hideaki Ando and Toshiaki Arai on Team C.
In addition, Mariko Iwasaki, Hiroko Kojima and Yasu Kojima supported the teams throughout their stay. Thank you!
The teams were divided into 14 groups. There were six round robin games in the first round held between July 26 and 28, the format being two woods, 12 ends or 1.1 hrs. The knockout rounds were held from July 28 to 30, with the final round played over 16 ends.
The results of the YC&AC teams were as below:
YC&AC A: B group 2 wins 4 losses 5th in the group
YC&AC B: E group 2 wins 4 losses 6th in the group
YC&AC C: L group 2 wins 4 losses 5th in the group
The Cup winning team was TMSA C from Hong Kong and the runner-up was RBSC Polo from Thailand.
On the evening of the 30th there was a prize presentation and party. The YC&AC representatives, dressed in yukata, had a fun and busy evening meeting and taking photos with the many partygoers.
Toshi and Shige showed off their karaoke skills performing the song “Kita Sakaba,” accompanied on stage by YC&AC dancers.
It was a perfect way to end the tournament, singing, dancing and taking photos with bowlers from all over Asia.
By Shige Itoh
Lawn Bowls 