West Hoathly Bowls Club News pages

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18 Apr 2024
Internal Competition Entry Forms Available at the Clubhouse. (See News section for details)

This year's club competition entry forms together with the rules are available at the clubhouse. The closing date for entries is the 19th of May with the draw taking place on Friday 24th of May in the evening. The competitions start on Saturday June ... [ Read more ]

25 Feb 2024
Congratulations Robin Yetman! Bowls England Coach of the Year 2023

Huge congratulations to Robin Yetman, our coach. He has been awarded the fantastic accolade of Coach of the Year 2023 at last night's annual Bowls England Awards held in Leicester, a brilliant achievement and fitting recognition for the monumental ef... [ Read more ]

28 Jan 2024
West Hoathly Local History Archive Exhibition 2nd & 3rd March 2024. Click on the News menu for more details

John Ralph, a fellow member is organising the West Hoathly Local History Archive Exhibition on the 2nd and 3rd of March 2024 from 10am to 5pm at West Hoathly village hall. There will be hundreds of photographs, maps, documents, artifacts, parish reg... [ Read more ]

02 Dec 2023
Most Improved Player for 2023 - Mark Chivers

Congratulations to Mark Chivers - Most improved player for 2023. Well Done! Seen here receiving his trophy from our new Club Captain Chris Champion [ Read more ]

07 Sep 2023
Finals Weekend 2023

The weather stayed fine for our Club Finals Weekend on 2/3 September.  We had a packed Saturday of finals which included the Mid Sussex Champion of Champions Final between Alex Payne of Buxted Park v Russell Doherty of Henfield.  Russell won the matc... [ Read more ]

29 Aug 2023
Memorial Cup Monday 28th August 2023

Ten teams of 3 in two groups competed for the Memorial Cup on Monday 28th August 2023, our annual Charity raiser.  The weather turned out to be kind and not a drop of rain fell on the competitors. Altogether there were 5 rounds of games of 4 ends eac... [ Read more ]

21 Aug 2023
Marking Course

Last week 19 club members attended two Marking sessions organised by Chris Champion and Ken Alexander. They learnt all about the correct way to mark a game, what laws they need to know and of course how to measure correctly. Everyone was very enth... [ Read more ]

13 Aug 2023
Another West Hoathly Team conquer Newick Invitation

Several West Hoathly teams entered this year's Newick invitation triples competition. They all bowled strongly and our trio of Alan Edmonds, Chris Champion and Guy Hodder came away with the trophy after winning four of their group games and then beat... [ Read more ]

12 Aug 2023
The First Dai Howick Memorial Trophy Event

22 bowlers competed for the Dai Howick memorial trophy which replaced the mower cup from this year. Despite a heavy downpour just before it started all bowlers braved the un-seasonal weather to have a fun day with some good bowling. In group 'A' Chri... [ Read more ]

06 Aug 2023
Winners for the Second Time

Congratulations to our three lovely ladies, Chrissie, Sandra and Sylvie who won the Felbridge Ladies Invitation on Friday 4th August.  This was the second time they had won this trophy, not consecutively, but with a gap of 3 years.  Well done girls.  [ Read more ]