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Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which players try to roll their ball (called a bowl) closest to a smaller ball (known as a "jack" or sometimes a "kitty"). The bowls are shaped (biased), so that they follow a curved path when being rolled.
Australian male bowls players (111 P) F. Australian female bowls players (66 P) P. Paralympic lawn bowls players for Australia (18 P)
The Bowls Premier League (BPL) is an annual bowls competition involving teams from around Australia. The competition was founded in 2013 as a way to popularise the sport by presenting in a modernised format, using the term "made-for-television" in its promotion.
Pedersen has won four Australian Open titles. The 2015 & 2016 fours, the 2016 pairs and the 2017 singles. [3]He has twice won the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic pairs title, winning in 2015 and 2016 with Corey Wedlock.
In 2020, he was selected for the 2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Australia but the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [8] The following year in 2021, he won his second Australian Open singles crown.
The Australian National Bowls Championships and the Australian Open are organised by Bowls Australia.Bowls dates back to 1845 in Australia but it was not until 1910, during the 1910 Carnival of bowls that South Australia proposed the formation of the Australian Bowling Council (consisting of the six states) which duly formed the following year in 1911.
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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.