TEA Gardens Men’s Bowling Club News

2 February

The weather forecast was not good; however, 51 players attended for the usual Nominated Triples competition today.

The first matches were completed, and the afternoon session had just commenced when the rain came. The winners were all determined on the morning matches and those with the highest winning score were in the money.

On the grass with 14 points were Tony Butler, Col Amos and Mark Hair and on the synthetic, with 27 points, Brian Newberry, Leigh Hunt and Neil Kibble were successful.

Tony Butler was having a good day, he won the Garden Eatery voucher as well.

Our thanks to the Garden Eatery for their support.

5 February

The Final of the Major Singles Championship was rescheduled and played this morning with Barry Goode taking on the current Club Champion, Jeff Baker.

With about 60mm of rain having fallen since Wednesday and showers still hanging around the championship grass green was always going to play a bit heavy.

To make matters a little more interesting a howling southerly added to the mix.

I missed the final, but I am told that Jeff was quickly away and established a 13-shot lead in the early stages.

To his great credit, Barry fought back in the middle stanzas closing to trail by just one shot 22-23.

As I have seen on many occasions, Jeff recovered quickly, moved up a gear and closed the match out winning the 2022 Major Singles Championship 31-22.

Members were full of praise for Barry who put up a wonderful fight despite the conditions, which I’m sure did not suit him.

Congratulations to both players and indeed to all who participated in our “blue ribbon” event.

For Jeff, this will be his 5th Major Singles title and he will have his name again added to the “Noel Cover Memorial Trophy”.

Barry will be in demand to form a team to compete in the Club Championship Pairs commencing soon.

On his current form he will do well.

Next weekend 7 Tea Gardens teams will take on 7 teams from Northmead BC in an inaugural Trophy tournament with matches scheduled for Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.

 

By John SLATER