Bowls Tawa

The South Australian International Series is on from 15–21 May at Holdfast Bay Adelaide with sides from Scotland, Fiji, South Africa, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia competing. As usual we're exercising our new charting system by refactoring a turgid database system into a proper bowls chart. Enjoy!

The finals of the Wellington Champion of Champions Pairs are currently underway at the Hutt club:

• For the men defending champions Ben King and Peter Batchelor from Wilton are 13–5 up against Lyall Bay's Brian Petherick.
• For the women the Hutt team are 10–9 up against Mandy Boyd and Dale Lang from Johnsonville.

Many thanks to Thelma Chapman for providing the results and progress scores.

The annual World Cup indoor singles event is underway in Warilla, Australia with Val Smith, Jo Edwards and Shannon McIlroy representing New Zealand.

29 men and 26 women contested the 2012 Champion of Champions Singles title race starting on 17 March. Those who reached the last 8 were:

You may be like me in getting irritated at the number of Adobe Acrobat documents being served up by Bowls Wellington to convey the simplest of messages. When you click on the headline you expect to get the details, but no you have to click again and wait for the pdf to load. I'm pretty sure that HTML was invented to stop this nonsense.

The popular Tawa Men's Over 60 Fours is underway for another year in brilliant conditions. The storm debris has been cleared away, the greens have been swept and rolled, and 116 bowlers from Levin to Miramar are present and accounted for. Let the friendly rivalry begin. The photo shows Brian Radich from Paraparaumu beach versus Lynn Fenwick from Tawa, and Monti Maich versus competition organiser Jock Miller intently watching the bowls on the first end of the day.

The charts for the Tawa Championship Singles events are now available. This is a single-bracket 2-life system where the bottom 2-lifer can play the top 1-lifer. Here we use our new online charting system, which supports the 2-life system, plus the 1-life knockout, pool play, as well as things like sides play, test matches, world bowls events etc. etc.

The Bowls Wellington Open Singles are now underway at 13 venues across Wellington and the Hutt. At stake is the much-coveted solo-discipline title for the 2011–12 season. The photo shows Wilton's Ben King measuring, Paul Everett from Eastbourne looking on  and marker Lynn Fenwick.

Evergreen Wellington bowler Judy Howat and partner Euan Wong have won the Wellington Mixed Pairs tilte for 2011–12. They defeated Helen and Ben King on the windswept Johnsonville green in extremely trying conditions. Judy wins her 33rd centre title and Euan his first.

Naenae's Robyn Fitzgerald, Jeremy Kydd from Victoria and Brent Stubbins from Johnsonville enjoy the cool early conditions at Tawa. Set for 3 games of 16 ends the 242 Mixed Pairs is the only centre event that allows a team to comprise players from different clubs. This year sees 92 teams in 7 pools across Wellington. Knockout play gets underway at  Johnsonville 9am Sunday.