Bowls Section

We have an active Bowls Section in the Club and we play all year round. In the summer we play on the Marriott House Crown Green adjacent to the Sandbach Library on a Tuesday & Friday morning from 10am to noon. In the winter we play short mat bowls at the Yoxall Village Hall in Haslington on a Wednesday afternoon from 2pm to 4pm.

Current situation due to Covid-19

Outdoor bowls has now resumed, as of 1st April 2021, in a Covid secure manner on Tuesday & Friday mornings.

Outdoor season 2021

Wednesday 25th August 2pm vs Marriott House Away

This was our return match and despite winning 5 out of 8 games we lost by 3 points overall. We needed to draft in some honorary members as our usual players were rather thin on the ground. Herewith the scoresheet:-

Tuesday 27th July, 6:30pm at Home to Weston – revenge time!

We did get our revenge by winning by 128 – 101 but again we were short of players so only 7 games were played. Here’s the scoresheet:-

Home match vs Marriott House Vets 20/7/21 – A Big Win for our team (- by a single point!). Herewith the scoresheet:-

We started our season with a friendly match against the White Lion at Weston on Tuesday 8th June. Many of our team were unfamiliar with their relatively small, high-crowned green which led to a rather disappointing performance, being beaten by 168-98 points. Better luck next time! here’s the scoresheet:-

Outdoor season 2019

August 20th An away match was played against the Marriott House Veterans. The match was called off part way through due to heavy rain. The teams agreed to accept the score at the point the match was called off, this meant that our club won by 77 points to 58.

August 13th We played an away match against Church Hulme. The match was hard fought but the home team prevailed and we lost 109-75.

August 2nd We played a home match against a team from the White Lion, Weston and won by 148 – 128.

July 30th – The Home match against Marriott House Vets resulted in another win for Sandbach Probus with a final score of 142 – 113. 16 members played and the full score sheet is below. Many thanks to those who helped backstage with the catering, raffle, washing-up etc.

July 2nd – The home Match against Church Hulme Probus resulted in a 121-89 point win for Sandbach with 16 members playing and 3 others providing moral & catering support. Final score sheet below>

Here are some pictures of the teams and the ‘action’!

We also play Crown Green Bowls competitively against other Clubs or Bowls groups in the region, as well as our own internal competitions. The current status of the Singles and Doubles competitions can be seen below.