Gymnastics coach Joe Softich from Washington State and I were invited to join in the weekly friendly tourney at Rossmund Golf Resort, Swakopmund..

His team won. Mine took the … silver medal.

Bowls or lawn bowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a “jack” or “kitty”.

National Bowling Associations were established in the late 1800s. In the then Victorian Colony (now State of Victoria in Australia), the (Royal) Victorian Bowling Association was formed in 1880 and The Scottish Bowling Association was established in 1892 …

Today the sport is played in over 40 countries with more than 50 member national authorities. The home of the modern game is still Scotland …

Lawn bowls is usually played on a large, rectangular, precisely levelled and manicured grass or synthetic surface known as a bowling green which is divided into parallel playing strips called rinks. …

End of day, it seemed (like Curling) that Bowls has more to do with drinking Jaegermeister than … sport. 🙂