Oxford and Cambridge teams will compete for bragging rights and sundry other verbal advantages. No experience necessary. Each University will have multiple teams of two players plus as many spectators as they can muster. There will be a $25.00 charge per player, which we’ll collect on the day - please bring cash.

 
Spectators are welcome at no charge. Parking is usually available on Balboa Drive. An après-bowling, no-host, casual late lunch/early dinner opportunity will be available at a local hostelry, TBA. 

Lawn Bowling, unlike 10-pin bowling, is played outdoors on a very finely trimmed grass lawn, with approx. 5-inch diameter "bowls".  The bowls are slightly heavier on one side than the other so that as you bowl them, they curve from a straight line towards the end of their travel and make it much more interesting that just doing a straight shot. 

A game starts with one player bowling a small white ball (called the jack) across the lawn, so it ends up somewhere close to the other side of the lawn. Then the aim of the players, in turn, is to get their bowls (4 bowls each for the two players on each of the two teams playing each other), as close to the jack as possible. The team with their bowl or bowls closest to the jack scores the number of points as they have bowls closer to the jack than any of the other team.

Each team effort in the match is called an “end”. The match continues, going back and forth across the lawn until each team has completed 12 ends. The team with the most points at this point is declared the winner.