Eighteen bowlers. Six teams of three. Five Saturday afternoons of close competition. League Phase I went to the wire, with Team A beating Team E in the crunch match and Team F (Toshi Kurosawa, Ippei Iwasaki and Makoto Honjo) sneaking into the runners-up spot by a single wood. Congratulations to Team A! League Phase I … Continue reading Team A Wins SSL Phase I
The YC&AC Lawn Bowls Section held its Opening Day Tournament on July 4, approximately two months later than usual owing to the coronavirus situation. The Opening Day Tournament is a mixed handicap event played for the Don Helm Memorial Trophy. In advance of the tournament, the entrants were seeded according to handicap and drawn into … Continue reading Two Itohs and Arai Win Opening Day Tournament 2020
Alex Hendy and Kazuko Yasuda today "received" certificates of excellence from Bowls Japan. In 2019, the two bowlers finished equal second on merit points in the Kanto region, according to the Bowls Japan system of accreditation. The Kanto region's no. 1 bowler was the Australia-based Ken Emura of Lawn Bowls Tokyo. Certificates of Excellence are … Continue reading Excellence Certified
Guidelines for the Playing of Lawn Bowls at YC&AC in 2020 Updated May 26 The YC&AC Lawn Bowls Section is • fully aware of and compliant with national and local guidance and • will ensure that the following supplementary guidelines are adhered to: Hand sanitiser will be made available at the entrance to the Club … Continue reading Guidelines for the Playing of Lawn Bowls at YC&AC in 2020
Congratulations — and thanks — to the following YC&AC bowlers who successfully completed the Bowls Japan Umpire Certification Course held at YC&AC on January 25, 2020. Jun Adachi Saori Hamada Tomohiro Hamada Yoko Ishiguro Toshiharu Saito Yuko Sasaki Motoko Tsuyama Thanks very much also to Bowls Japan's Mr. Sakamoto, who kindly gave up his time … Continue reading YC&AC’s “Official” Umpires
What better way to wrap up a season jam-packed with lawn bowls than with a marathon Closing Day Tournament! The event was held on the "morning" of Saturday, November 30, and was followed by an Awards Afternoon Tea. Twenty-two players braved the chilly early start and formed triples teams using a bespoke seeded handicap system. As … Continue reading And the Winners Were…
Three Pairs representing YC&AC and a fourth representing "YLBC" traveled from Yokohama to Akashi on the weekend of November 9/10 for the finals of the Bowls Japan Pairs. Alex Hendy & Marcel Niederhauser (reigning champions), Hirofumi Nakajima & Tomohiro Hamada, and George Ishiguro & Toshiharu Saito flew the YC&AC banner, while Seishi Yoda and Shigemitsu Itoh … Continue reading YC&AC Bowlers Storm Akashi Fortress and Suffer the Slings and Arrows
The Lawn Bowls Nations Cup, or more accurately these days, "Shield," is arguably the Club's biggest sporting prize. The annual tournament, which unites members from all athletic disciplines on the lawn of battle, was held this year on Sunday, October 20. As ever, teams wore the colours of their national flag or cheese; or wore … Continue reading Japan Trio Wins 2019 Nations Cup
In a break with long tradition, the 2019 Sunday Morning League (SML) was played over two phases, not one. The Winners and Runners-up of the Phase I round robin were rewarded with a place in the potential final and reentered the competition in Phase II. The other teams — this year we played triples — … Continue reading Hendy, Ishiguro and Nakajima Rediscover Form to Win SML
The journey began most auspiciously — a seat in (Lawn Bowls) Green Car no. 8 (八) on the lucky-for-Alex No. 17 Nozomi. Since I would be spending the weekend working with "woods," I paid a visit to the Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum close to Shin-Kobe Station. Magnificent. Inspired, I bought a book in the Museum shop … Continue reading The Woods and the Trees
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