Irish Road Bowling
| Irish road bowling is more like golf than bowling,
and involves rolling a cannonball down a winding country road. The needs in road bowling are few: a small steel cannonball, 28 ounces. Some chalk. A winding country road, preferably with a few hills, that hasn’t been repaved in a while. The rules are more like golf than bowling: Participants - either competing alone or in two- or four- person teams - try to get to the end of the course in the fewest number of bowls possible. Usually the course is one to two miles long. Any throwing style is legal, but most bowlers use a running start and an underhanded toss. A road spotter stands ahead to indicate the best path. A chalk mark is placed on the road where the bowl stops. Good bowlers read the curves and ridges of the road, and get bowls of several hundred yards. Bad ones, as in indoor bowling, roll their balls into the gutter - in this case, brambles and brooks - after 10 or 20 feet. |
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| Lynne Bauer, Glenna Prinzbach, Brent Fernandez,
Andy Robollar, Wes Bennett, Robin Turner, Rebekkah and David Lilly
make up the team representing the three parishes. |
| Anyone interested in learning more about Road Bowling should contact Wes Bennett or Lynne Bauer. |
