Category: National

  • Top bowlers given chance to push for World Championship selection

    Victoria’s Ray Martin, along with Stokes Valley’s Seamus Curtin, former Victoria member Kirsten Edwards and Wendy Jensen (Counties) will represent New Zealand in the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic. It is a quartet the selectors have picked with an eye to the next four year cycle. “It’s an opportunity for them to perform on those…

  • Well done Rich!

    CANADA – James Gardens 2020 World Indoor Singles Qualifier on Saturday 3rd August 2019 Wellington’s PBA Bowler and long term President of the Victoria Bowling Club in New Zealand, Richard Corry (see photo) has become the 1st New Zealand PBA Bowler to win through to the 2020 World Indoor Singles Championships being held in January…

  • 6th National title in 6 years for Victoria – well done Leigh!

    The Summerset National Fours champions have been crowned at the Naenae Bowling Club, with New Zealand squad member Mandy Boyd guiding her side of mother and daughter combination Kirsten Edward and Leigh Griffin, along with sister Angela Boyd, to a dominant win against against the well performed side of Margaret O’Connor, Christine Buchanan, Linley O’Callaghan…

  • Marshall has a tie break finish to get past Martin from NZ

    Ray Martin came up against a rampant six time world indoor champion Alex Marshall in the first set of their World Indoor Singles first round clash at the Potter’s Leisure Resort in Norfolk, England with the Scot cleaning out Ray 11-2. However, the kiwi showed his potential climbing back into the match in the second…

  • Well done Rich & Ray!

    Victoria duo Ray Martin and Richard Corry’s run at the National Open Pairs Championship in Auckland ended in the semifinals going down to the Thames Valley pairing of Karl Garrett and Colin Gawith. Rich and Ray had earlier ended the title hopes of 1985 victor Maurice Symes and 2014 champion Tony Grantham in emphatic fashion,…

  • Noble Doubles Up at NZ Disabled Championships

    New Zealand Paralympic medallist Mark Noble completed the double at the National Disabled Championships, claiming the singles and pairs and rounding out an impressive week on the Naenae greens. Hosted at the Naenae Bowling Club in Lower Hutt, Wellington, more than 30 competitors converged on the capital to contest the silverware in the singles, pairs…