Once again, Burnside Bowling Club player and School teacher Tayla Bruce has won the Women’s Player of the Year, after also receiving the gong in 2022. Those who are familiar … Read More

It can be difficult deciding who Bowls New Zealand’s Men’s Player of the Year should be … not only in 2023, but any year for that matter.  There is always … Read More

There’s an old adage in the game of bowls: you haven’t got a bowling club unless you’ve got a bowling green. Many clubs have found that out the hard way … Read More

There are about 25,000 incorporated societies in New Zealand. What they all have in common, including the 462 or so bowling clubs, is that they all depend on people as … Read More

Gayle Melrose’s bowls coaching credentials seem to go on forever and ever. And frankly, much do her credentials in life.  She’s one of those people who puts everything in to … Read More

There’s no doubt that Wellington has a lot of fabulous bowling clubs. They’re fabulous because they have often expropriated some of Wellington’s scarce flatlands nestled in picturesque dells and sheltered … Read More

The suburb of Hobsonville in the west of Auckland has been around a long time.  In fact when Captain William Hobson, the first Governor of New Zealand, landed at the … Read More

Those that play bowls competitively, particularly in the Nelson Centre, will have started to find themselves playing under the attentive eye of bowls umpire Margaret Eames. She’s been umpiring in … Read More