Highworth Bowls Club

April’s Royal Wedding was celebrated at the Club with an indoor ‘street party’ complete with games inside and outside. Thanks to Tracey, Nick, John, Zoe and all who helped to organise the day, and to all members for coming along, and providing the excellent party food.

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In the April Club Dress Code Ballot the overwhelming majority of Club bowlers voted to keep the Club dress code for all matches the same as it was for the 2010 season. Details will be posted in the Club in due course.

All full bowling members should by now have received a ballot sheet to decide dress code for 2011.  If you haven’t received yours yet, please contact Ian Thomas. Ballot results will be announced at an EGM which will precede the Spring Meeting and opening of the green on Sat 16th April at 11:00am.

The Ladies Spring Meeting will be held on Sunday March 13th,
with the Men’s Spring Meeting following on Sunday March 27th at 11:00 am.

This year we’re going to combine the Club Spring Meeting with the Opening of the Green – this will be on Saturday April 16th, with the meeting starting at 11:00 am, followed by the ‘official’ green opening.

On Saturday 19th March we have a Quiz Night which has been organised by bar our staff to tie in with Red Nose Day, and then on Tuesday 5th April Town Gardens Bowls Club join us here at Highworth for another of their popular quiz evenings. Visit the Club for further details, or to enter your team.

A little later we’re hoping to hold a Royal Wedding ‘Street Party’ at the Club on Friday April 29th – outside if the weather is kind, or in the clubhouse if not!

Finally if you know anyone who would like to join the Club as a social member or bowler, we’ll be holding our annual Open Day on Saturday 14 May from around 10:30 am to 2:30 pm.

The 2010 Club Competition Finals were held on the weekend of 11th and 12th September, with our annual dinner and presentations night being held on Saturday 6th November. Congratulations go to all the winners, commiserations to the runners up, and thanks to Competition Secretaries Gordon Pearce and Rose Winter – and all who organised, assisted, marked or otherwise supported us over the finals weekend.

Competition	Winner(s)	Runner(s) Up
Men’s Singles	Kevin Carter	Chris Blount
Men’s Handicap Singles	John White	Brian Trinder
Men’s Sportsman Singles	John Spencer	Gerry Vincent
Men’s Over 60 Singles	Gordon Pearce	John White
Men’s 2 Wood Singles	Kevin Carter	Richard Young
Ladies 4 Wood Singles	Linda Kingston	Rose Winter
Ladies 2 Wood Singles	Linda Kingston	Rose Winter
Ladies Jubilee Plate	Maggie Jordan	Sylvia Taylor
New Bowlers Competition	Tony Zammit	Gordon Watts
Mixed Singles	Chris Blount	Richard Young
Men’s Pairs	Tom Renno John White	Paul Stokes Chris Mussen
Ladies Pairs	Pam Barrett Linda Kingston	Sylvia Taylor Joy Evans
Mixed Pairs	Sean Hicks Linda Kingston	Elaine White Gordon Pearce
Men’s Triples	Graham Evans Tom Renno John White	Paul Barrow Mel Williams Gordon Pearce
Ladies Triples	Not contested
Friday Afternoon Mixed Triples League	Norman Birt Richard Jenks Geoff Heaford Geoffrey Mathieson	Pam Barrett Pam Jenks Tom Renno Barry Ayres