YC&AC’s own Motoko T. is representing Japan at the 15th Asian Lawn Bowls Championships currently being held in Pattaya, Thailand. Motoko will be playing in the Women’s Triples and Fours teams. We’ll try to keep you posted on Motoko’s progress by updating this page when we can. The status on the evening of Day 2, March 6, is that Japan’s women’s triples team lost their first game yesterday, against Malaysia, by a score of 10-19, but won today’s match, against Hong Kong, 15-12. And here is the evidence! I don’t have all the stats at my disposal, but it seems that if Japan’s women beat Sri ..read more

Eight teams contested the 2023 Closing Day Tournament, a two-end, three-wood, round-robin triples slugfest that produced some absolutely incredible bowls. You’d think with that super-short format we’d end up with a mess of ordinary W/D/L results, but in fact there are clear and outright winners of this tournament every year. This season’s champions won 6 out of their 7 games and no one can possibly argue with that. So congratulations once again to 2023 Closing Day Tournament winners Tom, Yuko and Ed, and thanks once again also to prize sponsors Ishu and the Ishiguros for the wine and nuts. Th ..read more

Everything you need to know about the 2023 season Closing Day Tournament can be found in the documents below. Click to enlarge. The times after the first match at 13:15 are approximations. Each new match will begin at the ring of the bell as soon as all teams are in position ..read more

YC&AC hosted the 2023 Bowls Japan Women’s Pairs finals on the weekend of September 23 & 24. Inclement weather made the opening day heavy work for those not familiar with bowling on grass, but Sunday saw clear skies, warm weather and some really hot, competitive bowls! Eight pairs in all took part, six from the Kansai region and two from Kanto. Representing YC&AC were Yuko Sasaki (lead) and Yoko Ishiguro (skip). Yuko and Yoko did just enough to finish second in Group A, and thus played the winners of Group B in the semi-final — the two times former champions Koyama (LC Kyoto) & ..read more

Terry Potticary’s remarkable winning start to the 2023 season continued on August 26 with victory alongside Ed Usuda in the Bowls Japan Kanto Region Men’s Pairs. Ed & Terry made light of defeat in Round One and rallied to win all of their remaining games — two of them with come-from-behind three-point last-end finishes. Talk about “never say die”!  The victory cost Terry (Kanto Singles Champion) his second beer tower of the season and Ed his first (thank you both!), but the twosome will head to Kobe later this year full of confidence in their combination and with the best w ..read more

Shige Itoh reports from Bangkok The 6th RBSC Lawn Bowls Open Triples Tournament was held at the Royal Bangkok Sports Club over five days from 26 to 30 July. This popular tournament had been postponed for four years due to Covid-19 but returned strongly this year with 94 teams taking part from 8 countries. Hong Kong was best represented at the tournament with 66 teams taking part from 21 clubs. Thailand fielded 9 teams from 7 clubs, India 6 teams from 3 clubs, Malaysia 3 teams from 2 clubs, Singapore 2 teams from 2 clubs, Vietnam and Macau each fielded 1 team from 1 club, while from Japan ther ..read more

The Sunday Morning League is the thickly sliced “bread and butter” of lawn bowls at YC&AC, a simple and nourishing モーニングセット of a tournament that lasts for as long as it takes. This year 18 bowlers lined up for breakfast, so we formed six triples teams, meaning five rounds of toast in total. The entry level “morning set” at Pronto (via pronto.co.jp) Going into the fifth and final round, all but one team had a chance of finishing second or third and claiming a small cash return on their investment, but there could only be one winner. [Drumroll…] The 2023 winners will be the first names on ou ..read more

The weather forecast was for drizzle and light rain in the morning clearing at noon just in time for the 12:30 start of the Opening Day Tournament. The torrential downpour at midday was not scheduled, and it was some relief for the 26 bowlers assembled when the skies did indeed clear right on time. The year’s bowling began in traditional style with a Spider… Click OPENING DAY SPIDER or anywhere on the photograph below to watch the video. The winning wood, which arrived at the jack from the right entirely undisturbed, was bowled by Motoko Tsuyama. Perfect line and length with her season’s very ..read more

2022 was the centennial — the 100th year — of lawn bowls proper at YC&AC. YC&AC’s second pavilion at Yaguchidai viewed over the lawn bowls green in 1926 The centennial season began on Saturday May 21 with the Spider, which was won by the Lesser Spotted Mr. Kasama, seen here wearing the champion’s one-of-a-kind polo shirt and holding wine bottle aloft. The Opening Day Tournament proper was won by Shinya Fujiwara, Yasu Kojima and Shigeo Yasuda. With 30 bowlers each donating the price of admission and/or optional additional donations, by the end of the first day the Centennial Fund ..read more

Ladies and gentlemen, here you have it. With thanks as always to Hon. Sec. Kaz for the beautiful presentation. This is exactly the same format as last year. Simply put, each team will play one match against the other teams in their Group PLUS one match against a team from the other Group, as determined by the luck of the draw. Group winners will meet in the final. Runners-up will meet to decide the Bronze Medal. Please try to be in position at your first-round rink in good time, ready for the ceremonials at 9:20. lb-nations-cup-2022-ver4Download ..read more