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Go Lawn Bowl!
... at beautiful Lawrence Park
Lawn bowling is a game whereby men and women of all ages can compete together on an equal basis, both competitively and recreationally. Physical strength plays a small part in the game; skill and strategy are the real factors.
You can enjoy the sport as a social activity within your own club: many fun days and tournaments are planned throughout the bowling season. In addition, if you are interested you can tour the numerous clubs around the area for some good team competition.
You are not obligated to come every day, as there are no set teams. A random draw is made according to how many people show up. Saturday is great fun -–we usually have a good turnout to play and enjoy special lunch treats on the patio between games.
New members are always welcome so if you do not know a member to introduce you, please call the membership contact at 416-250-8186. Our friendly coaches will teach you how to bowl and explain the rules. All you need to start are flat smooth-soled shoes (no heels) to protect the turf.
Every Thursday evening at 7pm is our Open Welcome Night - visitors are invited to try out the sport with assistance from any of the members on hand. Join in a casual game of 4-3-2-1 which will help to introduce you to the skills.
You will find that lawn bowling is a very economical sport. The fees are reasonable and in the first year the club has complimentary bowls available for your use.
There is a full program of bowling activity from May to October. Opening day is early in May - we invite anyone interested to drop in. We also have an Open House in the Spring when members will help interested visitors to take part in some games.Details on these 2009 events will be posted shortly.
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Mixed Bowling Schedule
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| Monday |
7:15 pm |
| Wednesday |
9:30 am |
| Thursday |
7:15 pm |
| Friday |
1:00 pm |
| Saturday |
10:30 am/1:30 pm |
| Sunday |
2:00 pm |
Whether you are looking for new friends, light exercise, social or competitive bowling, lawn bowling offers it all. Join us and give it a try.
Lawn Bowling is a Game for Life
It is an established fact that participation in the ancient game of “bowls” lengthens life. Doctors say so and statistics prove it.
Lawn bowling offers the finest form of moderate outdoor exercise in any game of outdoor sports and presents it in the form of one of the most fascinating games ever devised by man. Lawn bowling offers more than ideal physical exercise; if offers a better game! You will meet a roster of members, many of whom excelled in strenuous sports, who will now enthusiastically tell you “this is the best game of all”.
It is based on skill, rather than muscle, provides keen competition for men and women of all ages and provides exercise “suitable to the individual”. Bowlers can challenge and often triumph over the younger and more vigorous contestant. No game has more sustained interest. This is a competitive struggle, not like tenpins, five pins, or golf, or billiards, or ballet dancing, where one struggles continually to attain a standard “par” to quality and show their skill.
This is a contest where every bowl is a competitive give and take, and a perfect play can be spoiled by your opponent even as you would do to him or her. The cares of the world are forgotten as the first bowl rolls down the green.
Some medical doctors have given the following reasons for recommending systematic exercise to promote health and well-being:
- First, physiological contraction of leg and arm muscles compresses veins and helps to pump blood back to the heart and lungs.
- Second, this contraction helps prevent venous stasis, varicosities and venous thrombosis.
- Third, healthy muscular fatigue encourages normal sleep and rest, the perfect substitute for sedatives and sleeping pills.
- Finally, mounting scientific evidence that an active muscular metabolism, due to physical exercise suited to the individual over the years, plays a definite role in delaying or preventing clinical signs of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).
One important requirement is that exercise must be pleasant and can be fun. No other game yet devised more fully completes these requirements than the game of “bowls”. It offers mild exercise without undue fatigue, a combination of walking (the best of all exercises) in the fresh air, with rhythmic arm and body movements.
This is presented in an intensely interesting game that makes regular and systematic exercise a pleasure.
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