bowls

This is another new game for me. They call it lawn bowling or bowls. I am told it was originally a men's game and croquet was developed as a counterpart for women. Lawn bowling is played on a grass surface much like a golf putting green. The object, it appears, is to get the large balls as close to the small white ball as possible (similar to bocce ball or petanque.) While I was watching, there were 8 games occuring simultaneously, each played on a narrow section of the lawn called a rink (like a bowling alley). Each team would alternate bowling a ball toward the small ball. I have seen many lawn bowling clubs around town. This may be the counterpart to our beer soft ball leagues.