US Lawn Bowls Championships Day 3 – Rough Day on the Greens

This past weekend Milwaukee bowlers Bob Schneider and Rob Behncke emerged as winners of Men’s Pairs Playdowns and will represent the Central Division in the US National Championships in Arcadia California October 16-20.  This annual event is competition amongst bowlers who represent Bowls USA’s seven divisions. Congratulations and best of luck to Bob and Rob.

Twenty-eight  bowlers played in cool temps, fog and rain over two days in the Blind Pairs tournament held over the Memorial Day weekend. Blind Pairs is the traditional kick-off event for the Milwaukee Lake Park Lawn Bowls Club and features a unique format in which skips and leads play with different partners in each game,…

Milwaukee bowlers competed in the club’s 2012 Singles Tournament Saturday August 11th.  Congratulations to  tournament winners (pictured left to right) 3rd place – Lorraine Gebert, 1st place – Carl Landgren, 2nd place – Pat Wimmer.  Also picture Glorianne Mather.  Pat Wimmer lead for the majority of the game against Carl Landgren and went on to…

The Veteran/Novice Pairs tournament was played on September 14th.  There was a great turnout with 16 participants divided into 8 teams.  The teams were split into two pools of 4 playing a round robin.  The winners of each pool advanced to a playoff final.  Anna Witt and Sue Dropp (pictured left) triumphed over Crandall Hays…

MLPLBA hosted the Central Division Open Singles tournament on August 8-9, 2015. Eleven bowlers participated. Max Cavender edged out three time national champion Bob Schneider to capture the 2015 Central Division Singles title.  Bob had a 10 to 5 point advantage in the 18 shot final, but Max played some dynamic bowls to even up…