On Monday Mal rang Kyneton Bowling Club to find out if they had any bowls on Melbourne Cup Day. They didn't but Secretary Cath told us they have a Fours tournament on Wednesday (Kyneton Cup Day) and would we like to attend. You bet we did. They rang back to say we were in.
When we arrived Jean met Bev, Mick and Cath (who we spoke to Monday).
Cath introduced Jean to Jimmy.
The clubhouse is large, modern and nice.
There are two beautiful grass greens.
Jimmy showed Jean the nice outdoor area upstairs adjacent to the dining room.
It has a good view of the greens.
Jimmy said Kyneton is the oldest country club in Victoria and the Alex Oliver Green is heritage listed and the second oldest green in Victoria.
The bowler's room is called The Chloe Stewart Room. Chloe was the National Junior Champion. She started her bowls career at age 11 in Kyneton. She was the youngest Victorian lady bowler.
We played on the front green.
It's the WL Jones Green.
Our team was Jean, Mal, Denise and Graham.
There was a good chat between a John, Mal and David who we met at Romsey the other day.
We played two games of twelve ends. First game was against a Harcourt team of Ken, Keith, David and skip Smoji (of Kyneton). David is Harcourt President and Greenkeeper.
Harcourt is famous for apples, cider and wine.
There was nice 60's and 70's music in the background from a Bendigo radio station. After four ends Jean started to get shots but being Lead she rarely kept them.
Mal as Third did though. Jean helped.
It took Mal to end ten to get shot.
Then Denise came down, took kitty for four.
We were ahead the whole game then they got a four. Going into the last end we had 13 to 12. They got two for a win. We came inside for a salad roll.
Mal won 2nd prize in the raffles. We got our $30 entry fee back.
Cath came out and presented Jean with a Kyneton badge for her hat.
It's a bit top-heavy now but Jean loves her hat.
Second game we played John, Mick, Terry and Peter from Kyneton Golf.
Mick had an interesting shirt. The club had a friend Spotty Seymour who passed away at a young age. They had a tournament to remember him with his photo on the shirts.
Jean started off really well with two. We ended up with one.
Next end they had two. Mal took the kitty back to his back bowl.
We lost by a lot. We came back inside. Jean wanted to take photo of Denise, herself and Bev who were the only three women who played today.
Our rink sat down for drinks. The boys were very happy.
They were the overall winners.
Kyneton - we lost twice but had lots of fun!
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