10/07/2025
Phear Park Bowling Club have had a busy May and June so far, but not for all the right reasons.
May started beautifully with some very enjoyable games, Heavitree, Bradninch, and Uffculme.
Our first being away to Heavitree, which sadly we didn't come out in top, we finished the game 59-55 so only a margin. However, we did win on one rink with a great score of 20 points played by Keith Raffel, Nigel Oates and skipped by Sarah Westacott.
Playing host to Bradninch, we unfortunately sustained another loss, 61-67. But similar to the Heavitree game, we were successful on one rink, players Sarah-Jane Cairns, John Whyte and Skip Sarah Westacott had a 19-15 point win.
Off to Uffculme then, and finally successful, winning 70-53. With a stand out rink skipped by David Hawkins, Nigel Oates the second and lead by John Horne, with a spectacular 24-8 lead.
Then in the beginning of June we had news from our green keeper. He had noted a problem with the green and after some investigation, he found that we had quite a bad infestation of crane fly larvae. These can cause devastating effects to greens as they feed on the grass and roots leaving it in a bad way. We had to close our green for a little while to allow the treatment to be carried out. We are back up and running and hopefully many more games to come this season.
