Eight teams contested the 2024 Closing Day Tournament on Saturday, November 23. In a tweak to the traditional format, the tournament was played as a complete round robin with no final. Three ends, three woods, twenty-one different hands to shake. At the end of a full afternoon of fun and fiercely friendly lawn bowls, the winners outright on WDL points were…
Ishu, Motoko and Yasu
Congratulations once again to them.
In addition to being a last chance to win some silverware, the Closing Day Tournament serves as an opportunity for those present to congratulate in person all of the season’s winners. Without further ado, this season’s Champions were…
In the Seniors category…
George!
In the Mixed Pairs category…
George and Yoko! The Ishiguros will also see their names engraved on the Husband & Wife trophy — for the fifth consecutive year!
The winners of the Pairs Handicap tournament were…
Eddie and Terry!
The “Men’s Pairs” final was contested between two men and, for the first time in the history of the competition, two women. The winners were…
The men! This was the third consecutive Pairs title for Alex & Russell and their fifth in the last seven years.
Sadly the Women’s Singles was not contested this year, but the Men’s certainly was, and it was won, for the third time in his illustrious YC&AC lawn bowls career (1995, 2021, 2024), by…
Marcel Niederhauser!
The complete list of all the season’s winners and runners up is pictured below (click to enlarge). The champions’ names are currently being inscribed on the trophies and boards, and the winners have already been inducted in our digital Hall of Fame.
Who will join them in 2025? Your guess is as good as mine.
See you up there.
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