Milwaukee Lake Park Lawn Bowling Club
Milwaukee Lawn Bowling
16 Milwaukee bowlers competed in the club’s 2013 Pairs Tournament Saturday August 3rd. Pairs teams of men and women bowled together. Both winning teams won 3 games and the winner was determined by plus points. Overall a very enjoyable day of lawn bowls. Congratulations to the top winning teams: 1st – Jack Britton/Ted Bailey (upper photo), 2nd Dorothy Bauer/Carl Landgren (lower photo). Thanks to tournament director Glorianne Mather.
MLPLBA hosted the Butler Blind Pairs tournament on May 24,2014. Twenty bowlers participated on this beautiful Saturday at Lake Park. The championship game came down to the top ranked skip and lead (John Kirkwood and Dave Olsen) vs. the second ranked skip and lead (Rob Behncke and Alice Sedgewick). Kirkwood/Olsen won. Scott Wisniewski (skip) and Jack Britton…
MLPLBA hosted the Central Division Playdowns Pairs tournament on August 15-16, 2015. MEN – Steve Nelson needed all of his experience in national and international play to get by his long time pairs partner Carl Landgren and win the 2015 Singles Playdowns. Both players were on their games in the 90 degree heat. The match…
The Milwaukee Lake Park Lawn Bowling Association hosted the 2014 Central Division Open Pairs tournament July 11-12. Congratulations to the tournament winners: 1st place – Carl Landgren/Mark Mathwig, 2nd place – Max Cavender/Jim Cavender, 3rd place – Steve Nelson/Rob Behncke. Thanks to Leif Andresen for a successfully run event.
Four Milwaukee Lake Park bowlers met in Orange County, California from September 8-14 to compete in the 94th US Open Tournament of Lawn Bowling. Bob Schneider successfully fought his way through an international field of 64 teams over three days of competition and emerged from the Grand Championships on Friday, after a very close game,…
Our Central Division Open will soon kick off on Thur Aug 7 through Sun Aug 10 and we would love for you to help make it a success! If you have time, please consider signing up to volunteer at our Open. As you may know, when playing games, they can be very quick or run…
This club tournament was inspired by the veteran novice pairs tournament played at Jefferson Park in Seattle, WA and we started playing our own version in 2011, typically with two matches in the morning and two matches in the afternoon. The Veteran Novice Pairs Tournament teams veterans with more than three years of lawn bowling…