Woodend Bowling Club today
We are affiliated with the Central Highlands Bowling Division, fielding both Saturday and Midweek Pennant side have a grass green that is normally only available in the warmer months and a woven carpet green that allows for bowling all year round. With the addition of a powerful lighting system on the carpet green that enables bowling at night as well. We also have a fully-licenced clubhouse which is available for hire. For further information please call the Club on (03) 5407 9220 or email: [email protected]. For barefoot bowls bookings please email: [email protected] |
WE ARE 126 YEARS YOUNG
There can be few clubs or organisations in the Macedon Ranges that have a longer continuous history than the Woodend Bowling Club. At a well-attended meeting of the ratepayers held on 1st June, 1890, it was decided to establish a Bowls and Tennis Club in the town. A committee was appointed to select the most suitable ground and was authorised by the meeting to make an application to the Shire. The location chosen on the south side of the Five Mile Creek, and was unanimously approved at the next meeting. |
This is the very same location where the Woodend Bowling Club is based today. The original agreement of the lease was to pay the ‘consideration of one shilling paid yearly’. The Club still has an excellent working relationship with the Shire, although the current ‘consideration’ is slightly more. Back in 1890, it was agreed to erect a 4 foot 6 inch picket fence, at a cost which would not exceed £50. As soon as this was completed the club would spend at least £50 to form the new bowling green, which was officially opened on Christmas Day the same year. |
Lawn bowling in the 21st century is both colourful and competitive, and is no longer the ‘older persons’ game that many people believe. In fact, most of the leading male and female players in the Australian ‘Jackaroos’ teams and in their 20s, 30s and 40s. with some players, like Kyneton’s Chloe Stewart, being chosen successfully in the national team as a teenager. There are also more ‘fun’ versions of the game such as barefoot bowls and Jack Attack, which is the bowling version of cricket’s T20. The Woodend Bowling Club is always looking for new members, young and not-so-young. |