Get On The Green

Bowls is an activity for people of all ages. These programs will help people learn about lawn bowls. They will introduce you to the fundamentals of bowls and help you develop skills over the five weeks.

Located at John St, Ivanhoe we have street parking. We are also close to the Ivanhoe station.

Organise your group. We will fit the 5 week program dates to suit the availability of your group. Nothing to do on the weekend? – then Sunday morning may work for you. Evening sessions during daylight savings are also very pleasant. All of the bowling hardware is provided. You just need to have flat soled shoes.

In this course you will learn:

Session 1. 

• Introduction
• Safety on the green
• Commonly used terms
• Etiquette
• Green layout – lines, markers and pegs
• Placement of the mat
• Rolling the jack
• Understand the bowl bias
• Bowl grip, stance and delivery
• Fun bowls activity

Session 2.

• Bowl grip and stance revised
• Backhand & forehand deliveries
• Touchers and dead bowls
• Score card, score board & indicating shot
• Bowls game

Session 3.

• Bowls Game
• Introduced to Measuring shot bowls
• Estimating closest bowl

Session 4

• Bowls Game
• Drawing shots to different lengths
• Bowls in the ditch
• Explain different games, eg pairs, triples etc

Session 5:

• Bowls competition amongst participants
• Next Steps