This past weekend saw the beginnings of this year's Men's Club Championship Singles but, unfortunately some of the games scheduled were not able to be played due to difficulties presented by the weather and road conditions.
Saturday morning, Harry Craig and Barry Saroglia played an epic game of singles to start off this year's competition. After 30 ends of intense strategic draw bowls and concentrated effort by both players, Harry Craig defeated Barry Saroglia 25-23 and Nathan Harriott won his game via forfeit against Michael Kinnear. Saturday afternoon was another long game with another two good singles players being drawn to play each other as Jonathan Bye defeated David Ling 25-17.
Sunday morning Toby Craig played Scott Hamilton and this time Toby defeated Scott by 25-12. On Sunday afternoon Shane Kinnear played Mike Harrison and unfortunately for Mike, who would get his bowls close to the jack only to find that Shane would shift the jack late in the end to score the prize with a crushing score of 25-1.
No Social bowls were played on Wednesday afternoon due to the wet weather conditions, but on Sunday afternoon there were 14 players all ready for a game of bowls. Seeing Alen Sanderson, Josh Wilson, Arthur Griffith and Gavin Noonan defeat Alfred (a visitor from Sweden enjoying his first game of bowls), Trevor Parsons, Philip Brown and Heather Brown 28-13. John Anderson, Bruce Uhe and Kendall Watts defeated Ken Watts, Barry Zillmann and Sandy Daffara 33-15.
Contributed with thanks by the Secretary of the Proserpine Bowls Club