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Crown green bowls (or crown green) is a code of bowls played outdoors on a grass or artificial turf surface known as a bowling green. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The sport's name is derived from the intentionally convex or uneven nature of the bowling green which is traditionally formed with a raised centre known as the crown.
Torkington Park provides crown green bowling, tennis courts and football pitches. Hazel Grove Football Club was founded in 1957 and play their home games at Torkington Park. The club was taken over by new management in 2014 and plays in the Manchester Saturday Morning Football League.
Stockport County: 73 (23) 1986–1992: Bradford City: 157 ... *Club domestic league appearances and goals: ... Leonard took up crown green bowls. He won the ...
West Heaton Bowling, Tennis and Squash Club, established in 1873, has six all weather tennis courts, two squash courts and a bowling green. Heaton Moor Golf Club, founded in 1892, is an 18-hole relatively flat, tree lined course set in a conservation area.
The club has cricket, crown green bowling, tennis and football facilities and a clubhouse. Golf is played at Prestwich Golf Club, and crown green bowling in St. Mary's Park. Both are also found at the nearby Heaton Park, where the bowling greens were built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
Bowling green specifications for the lawn bowls variation of the sport are stipulated in World Bowls' Laws of the Sport of Bowls. [2] For the variant known as crown green bowls, no such stipulation is documented by the national governing body and bowls clubs are free to form the dimensions and other specifications as they feel fit. Generally a ...
Attached to the club is a crown green bowling section which runs several teams in local bowling leagues. [110] Leigh has two cricket clubs: Leigh Cricket Club play in the ECB Premier League Liverpool Competition, [111] and Westleigh Cricket Club, [112] have two senior and 4 junior teams playing in the Greater Manchester Cricket League. [113]
In outdoor bowls the jack has no bias, but in Crown Green bowls, the jack has a bias similar to the bowl itself. jack high: is a comparison of the position of a bowl in relation to the jack. A "jack high bowl" means a bowl whose front edge, which is closest to the bowler on the mat, is level with the front edge of the jack.