Women’s triples winners Colleen Graham, Delma Badger and Luvey Murray invite the Cooktown community to give lawn bowls a go. Photo: Supplied.
Lawn bowls helped a Cooktown newcomer find her people in the community. She’s now encouraging other residents to get involved.
Cooktown Bowls Club welcomed six new faces on the greens at its free Come & Try event on 15 November. It’s now keen to meet more potential bowlers at the next event on 29 November.
Delma Badger, who took up bowls this year when she moved to Cooktown, said the sport had helped her feel welcome and at home.
“I enjoy bowls as it’s a light form of exercise,” she said.
“Being new to town, I have met a lovely group of people, and enjoy the challenge of getting better every time I play.”
Delma was also a member of the winning ladies’ team at the annual men’s and women’s triples competition on 15-16 November.
The men’s event threw down the first jack on Saturday after the Come & Try event and continued bright and early Sunday morning when the women also took to the greens to compete.
For those new to the sport and eager to “come and try”: teams of three worked together to score as many points as possible by placing their bowls closer to the jack than their opponents.
Delma, Colleen Graham and Luvey Murray successfully knocked out their competition in the women’s division, while Dan Skyring, Brett Wilson and junior Darius Boyers took the men’s division win.
Delma said it was great to have a junior player highlighted in the winning team and underlined the growing revolution that lawn bowls was a sport for all ages.
“The club would like to remind the community the junior coaching program is still being run on Saturday mornings by Russell Graham, who is an accredited coach,” she said.
“If you are interested in getting into a friendly, feel-good and inexpensive sport, bowls is a great, fun sport to play.”
Men’s triples winners Dan Skyring, Darius Boyers and Brett Wilson. Photo: Supplied.
