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Short Mat Bowls is a generally indoor based bowls sport, played on a carpet. Whilst the game is heavily played throughout the United Kingdom, it is also played throughout Europe, and also places such as India, [ 1 ] Australia, [ 2 ] New Zealand [ 3 ] and Japan. [ 4 ]
Short mat bowls is played indoors, so it is an all-year sport that is not affected by weather conditions. Because the equipment is transportable and easy to set up, it is particularly appropriate for locations that are also used for other purposes such as village halls, schools, and sports and social clubs; it is even played on North Sea oil rigs.
In accordance with the village hall background, the bowls mat is smaller at around 30 x 6 feet, and the inventors clearly paid less emphasis upon trying to maintain all the rules of the Mother game. For instance, carpet bowls dispenses with the notion of a 'ditch' and various sometimes complex rules associated with it.
The player ranked number 1 at the end of the season is awarded the Short Mat Players Tour Order of Merit sponsored by Henselite Bowls UK. The short mat players tour events also feature Short Mat Bowls' only world rankings table, with a rolling two year ranking system in place. [19] This is the only world ranking system in place in short mat bowls.
Stephen Williams (born 3 August 1973) is a Welsh short mat bowls player, and four time singles world champion.Williams won the championship in consecutive tournaments in 2002, and 2004, and then again in 2010 and 2012. [1]
Welsh Short Mat Bowls Association; Welsh Women's Bowling Association; World Bowls This page was last edited on 22 May 2023, at 09:07 (UTC). Text is ...
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