Broadbeach - Aussies vs Kiwis

We've played at Broadbeach before - for the Services Australia Sports Carnival - but not on this trip. Mal called and got our names down for Tuesday morning.

We were looking forward to seeing Andrew Howie who works here but he tells us he's busy today at Helensvale. We've been told it would be tough here because all the big players play here on Tuesday. We arrived and met Tony and Lenny at the table.

Mal posed with the Broadbeach Bull.

There are four lovely greens. Three out the front

And one out the side.

Chris from Churchill in Victoria came over and chatted with us. He's playing in the Australian Open. He drew Aaron Sherrif first round.

There were lots of people there.

It's pairs. We played together.

Against Neil and Christine from Queenstown in New Zealand. Christine plays for New Zealand in the over 60's. She once beat Karen Murphy in The Australian Open. They are here for that.

There were players on all four greens.

We played on the front green.

It's the John Greening.

It took Jean a few ends to work out the grass. Mal was onto it but she worked it out.

We were surprised to be up by 15 to 2 and kept drawing shots.

End ten Jean put the kitty in the ditch for one then Neil drew a beauty.

We were doing well with the bull looking over us.

Then they got a four and Mal started to panic. He played weight and missed instead of drawing (when he was drawing so well) and we went down six ends in a row. We were only one up. Mal pulled it together 2nd last end when we got a six. We ended up 26 to 17.

We came inside, Neil and Christine didn't come in. We were early so we watched remaining bowlers for a while.

Jean chatted briefly with champion bowler Ryan Bester (who's Canadian - been here 16 years) about Pat Bird who we played with the other day.

Broadbeach - we won - lucky it's bowls not Rugby!