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 … Continue reading It’s the End of the Year as We Know It
This year's installment of the Lawn Bowls Nations Cup was held on Saturday October 19 with eight triples teams taking part. In a break with recent tradition, the tournament was played in a round robin format, four ends per match, with no final. At the end of a colorful and fun-filled day of lawn bowls, … Continue reading Black Thunder Strikes Again to Complete Nations Cup Triple
YC&AC hosted its first Lawn Bowls Interport for more than fifty years on October 12 when fifteen bowlers from Singapore's Tanglin Club ascended upon our green for an afternoon of triples. The tournament might be considered the first fruit of the connections made by our bowlers in recent years when participating in the International Triples … Continue reading YC&AC Bowlers Break Long Interport Drought — in Style
YC&AC hosted a novel friendly tournament on September 7, inviting bowlers from other clubs in the Kanto region to join us for a day on the green and an evening on the deck. Thirteen bowlers from other clubs and twelve from YC&AC signed up, allowing for an almost perfect triples tournament, with one team rotating … Continue reading First Kanto Friendly a Tremendous Success
Magnificent weather heralded the opening of the 2024 lawn bowls season at YC&AC, Saturday, May 18. Proceedings began, as always, with a Spider, the traditional "curtain raiser" to a lawn bowls season in which Club bowlers release their first wood of the new campaign simultaneously. https://youtu.be/ol4_NAb7vQo Closest to the jack on this occasion was Ishu … Continue reading Tom T, Toshi and Wataru Triumph in 2024 Opening Day Tournament
Teams, fixtures, rinks and rules are tabulated below. Click the images to enlarge. Please gather your team and woods at your Round 1 rink by 12:15. 12:20 Welcome and group photo 12:25 Spider 12:30 Tournament starts See you up there!
YC&AC's own Motoko T. is representing Japan at the 15th Asian Lawn Bowls Championships currently being held in Pattaya, Thailand. Motoko will be playing in the Women's Triples and Fours teams. We'll try to keep you posted on Motoko's progress by updating this page when we can. The status on the evening of Day 2, … Continue reading Ganbare Motoko! Ganbare Nihon!
Eight teams contested the 2023 Closing Day Tournament, a two-end, three-wood, round-robin triples slugfest that produced some absolutely incredible bowls. You'd think with that super-short format we'd end up with a mess of ordinary W/D/L results, but in fact there are clear and outright winners of this tournament every year. This season's champions won 6 … Continue reading And in Closing…
Everything you need to know about the 2023 season Closing Day Tournament can be found in the documents below. Click to enlarge. The times after the first match at 13:15 are approximations. Each new match will begin at the ring of the bell as soon as all teams are in position.
The 2023 instalment of the longstanding Club tradition that is the Lawn Bowls Nations Cup was held on Saturday, October 28, in idyllic autumnal conditions. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five, with the winners of each group progressing to the final and the runners up battling it out for third place. … Continue reading New India Wins 2023 Nations Cup
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