The interest in winter bowling last year has led the committee to wonder if there would be interest from within our club, and from other clubs, in playing in a 2017-18 Winter League on the artificial green.

Outline Proposal

• Matches to be held on Saturday or Sunday mornings
• Games to be played from first weekend in October to last weekend in March
• Captain of first team listed on fixture to decide if green is unplayable, e.g. ice / snow
• Teams to consist of 4 players (no need to register a squad of named players at the start of the season or to play the same four players each week. The only exception to this would be where a club enters two teams, in which case players will need to register with one team or the other)
• Matches to consist of four single games, 21 up, played at the same time
  Clubhouse and male / female toilets will be accessible Jacks, tapes, mats, scorecards will be provided
• Tea / coffee, refreshments, will be available, at no cost
• ‘Full members’ of Ormskirk Bowling Club (£35 per year) and ‘Winter members’ (£25) will not be required to pay on match days.
• Non-members of OBC will be asked to pay £2 per player, per fixture, to be left in the clubhouse
• Ormskirk Bowling Club will co-ordinate the season’s fixtures and maintain the results table
• All fixtures will be published before the start of the season
• Trophy to the winning team and £50 prize at the end of the season

For example, if eight teams entered, fixtures would look like:

Saturday 7th October:
10am – Team A v Team B
11.30 am – Team C v Team D Sunday 15th October:
10am – Team E v Team F
11.30 – Team G v Team H

1 point would be awarded for each game won
2 points would be awarded for the aggregate
1 point to each team for a drawn aggregate

Any comments on the idea of hosting a winter league at OBC, if you wish to enter a team, and your thoughts on the proposal set out above, should be sent to Steve James at james.s52sky.com@sky.com.  Anyone interested in joining the club as a winter or full member please contact the club using the page on this website. If we get sufficient interest in the winter league we will give it a go.