Bathurst - Mal won, Jean lost at a beautiful club

We've been in Bathurst a couple of days. We arrived on Monday so no bowls and had a day off yesterday (Mal's still not 100%) . Jean went to visit The Greens on William in Bathurst and got the juice. Mal rang this morning to get our names down. We walked the ten minutes to the club.

It's a beautiful old-fashioned club.

With verandah all around.

Very unusually it has four greens. Two out front

And two out the back.

Green 3 is being renovated.

We came inside and met Ray (Shorty) at the table.

Neville and Mal chatted and Mal asked about club shirts.

Norman and Ian sorted Mal out with yet another shirt with Parramatta colours. They are The Grizzly Bears.

We played on Green 4.

So did the ducks. They have volunteer greenkeepers.

It's three-bowl triples. Jean was lead with Ian and skip Dennis

(Dennis, Jean and Ian)

Against Allan, Bruce and Paul.

Mal played with Neville and skip Alby.

(Alby, Mal and Neville)

Against Jack, Bob and Ian.

Jean was doing her best but Paul kept coming inside her bowls.

Mal was doing much better. He worked out the weight.

And again.

Jean finally got in there with lots of help from Ian's red bowls. They ended up with one in the end.

Jean started to work out the weight. She got a toucher.

Mal was killing it!

Jean wasn't counting but Paul told her she'd had four touchers in the game.

Jean lost 12 to 23. Mal won 27 to 20. We came inside for drinks with the boys.

Jean asked Neville about badges. He searched and he found one for her.

Bathurst City Bowling Club - a friendly bunch of blokes!