Depending on the number of entrants, availability of the Cowen Suite and mats, the Bowls Club will arrange for Bowls and Sports Club members, the various short mat competitions detailed below. Matches will be played every week except during the Christmas holidays, from October 2023 to late March 2024. Match days are Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, starting at 10.15, 12.00, 1.45, and 3.30. We do not have the capacity to accommodate “turn up and play” so all sessions are pre-arranged.
Triples and 2-4-2 Pairs are played on Monday, Tuesdays and Fridays.
Select Pairs League matches are played on Monday, Tuesdays and Friday afternoons
Singles/Plate competitions start in January 2024.
Short Mat competitions are played for fun, but there is a level of commitment required. The Organisers would like everyone to select the disciplines they wish to play, but a word of caution; the more you enter the more chance there is you may be asked sometimes to play twice in a day and/or on two or perhaps three days a week.
Please don’t enter the singles competition if you are not available on finals day, March 2024.
Charges for 2023-24 consist of a Short Mat Membership fee of £24 and a charge per discipline:
Short Mat Membership fee £ 24
Disciplines:
Triples League £ 34
2-4-2 League £ 44
Select Pairs League £ 30
Singles/Plate competitions £ 16
Total for 4 disciplines £ 148
Short Mat charges will be collected by direct debit on 1st November, although the Sports Club, on request, will allow the charge to be split equally over 2 months (November & December).
SHORT MAT ORGANISER (appointed by Bowls Club Committee): D SOUPPOURIS
Triples (Organiser D Souppouris)
The Organisers will make the draw for this competition, appoint captains and allocate match dates on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays, starting October 2023. The Organisers will select teams using outdoor handicaps, where available, to ensure the teams are equally matched. The top four teams will contest the semi-finals for a place in the final.
2-4-2 (Organiser H Marsh)
The Organisers will make the draw for this competition, appoint captains and allocate match dates on Monday, Tuesday and Friday afternoons, starting October 2023. The Organisers will select teams using outdoor handicaps, where available, to ensure the teams are equally matched. The top four teams will contest the semi-finals for a place in the final.
Select Pairs (Organiser P Dobbs)
The Organisers will make the draw for this competition and allocate match dates, which will usually be on a on Monday, Tuesday and Friday afternoons, starting October 2023. The competition is played as a league. The team finishing first in the league are the winners.
Singles (Organisers M Terriere & Demetrios Souppouris)
The Organisers will make the draw for this competition and allocate match dates for the first round, starting January 2024. For subsequent rounds, players should arrange their own matches by the play dates set by the Organisers. A schedule showing when there are free mats will be posted on the notice board.
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