1550 Crown Drive North, Corona del Mar, CA 92625  (map)

(949) 640-1022

Free Lessons
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Mondays:         BOWLING UNDER THE LIGHTS  -  6:30 p.m.
Tuesdays:        AFTERNOON BOWLING (Pairs) - 1:00 p.m.
 Wednesdays:  MORNING BOWLING - 10:00 a.m.
 Thursdays:       AFTERNOON BOWLING & POTLUCK - 3:00 p.m.
Saturdays:       MORNING BOWLING - 10:00 a.m.
Sundays:          AFTERNOON BOWLING - 3:00 p.m. (1:00 p.m. DST)
                           PRACTICE OR ARRANGED GAMES - Mon thru Sun
                          (Call 30-60 minutes prior to game time for draw)

    

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 Calendar of Events & Tournaments  

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 The Game of Lawn Bowls   

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Tournament Results
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 A Look Back to Our "Roots"
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2010 SWD Tournament Schedule  (Preliminary 2/3/09)
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 Lawn Bowls Links
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2009 Coast League  (Standings & Schedule)
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Contact Information
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Tournament Manual  (Southwest Women's Div)  
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The Golden Bias Club  (Support Team USA)
 
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Blue Book (SWLBA Bowls Tournament Play-Men) 

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Professional Bowls Association                  

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An Introduction to Lawn Bowls  (Video at YouTube)  

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Photo Albums
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Maps to SWD Clubs
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Bowls USA Magazine    
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Application for Membership
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Green Jack    

 

 

Membership Roster (209 members)


2010 Officers

President:            Phil Luth

Vice President:     John MacDonald

Secretary:            Dee McSparran

Treasurer:            Jan Hargraves


2010 Board of Directors

John Groothuis (Immediate Past President)

Dave Phillips

Don Stewart

Len Cormier III

Ted Farfaglia


2010 SWD Representatives (Men)

Phil Luth, Tom Hargraves, Ted Farfaglia


2010 SWWD Representatives (Women)

Sharon Grady, Darlyne Hilliard


2009 Committees and Chairpersons

Art........................................

Eula Casselman
Club Draw
          Saturday......................
          Sunday........................
          Monday.......................
          Tuesday......................
          Thursday.....................		 Open
John & Cathy MacDonald, Patty Lucas, Sharon Grady
Charlie Herbert
Jack McDermott, Jim White
Open

Club Supplies.........................

 John MacDonald, Bill Day, Dave Price

Clubhouse Decorations............

 Cathy MacDonald
Facilities Scheduling................ Jan Hargraves, John Groothuis

SWD Reps/Delegates
          SWLBA........................
          SWWD........................
John Groothuis, Tom Hargraves, Phil Luth
Marion Compton, Pauline Kozma

Gardening..............................

 Tom Hargraves

Greens Supervisor...................

 Tom Hargraves

Greens Keeper........................

 Ramiro
Historian Darlyne Hilliard

Hospitality.............................

 Tony Greenberg

Instruction.............................

 Jan Hargraves

Membership...........................

 John Groothuis
Open House........................... John Groothuis
Social.................................... Len Cormier

Tournaments
          Club............................
          Coast League...............
          President's Cup............
          Winter League.............
Tom Hargraves
Tom & Jan Hargraves
Tom Hargraves
Jan Hargraves, John MacDonald

Welfare.................................

 Ray Norris

The Yellow Jacket...................

Chuck Muser

Publicity................................

Ray Norris
Web Site............................... Dee McSparran

 

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Lawn Bowls Links

   United States Lawn Bowls Association

  Bowls America

  Lawn Bowls USA

  Bowls Club Info

  World Bowls Tour

  Birkenhead Bowling Club - New Zealand (sister club)

  A Lawn Bowls Tutorial

  Perfectly Engraved

 

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Contact Information

Phone

(949) 640-1022


E-mail address

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2008 Club Tournaments Winners

Mixed Triples (January)...............................

Maryna Hyland, Dale Lucas, Harriet Bemus

Valentine's Day Pairs (February)...................

 Tibor & Pauline Kozma

St. Patrick's/St. Joseph's Day Triples (March)..
(Three 11-end games w/team blind draw each game)

Dee McSparran

President's Cup Triples (December)...............

Dee McSparran, Patty Lucas, Bill Day
Vet-Novice Triples (April)............................ Ted Farfaglia, Dee McSparran, Chuck Muser

President's Cup Pairs (November).................

Brad Parker, Terry Heeley

President's Cup Singles (April).....................

Ron Temple

 

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A Look Back to Our Roots

Lawn bowling, or "bowling on the green" is a game that has been around for a good many hundred years.  During the heydey of the Roman Empire, the game was known as "bocce."  Metal bowls were used and the game is still played in Italy and Southern France.  Bocce has been introduced into this country and is played in many cities of the United States.

The Romans eventually carried the game to Europe and the British Isles.  Bowling was so well established in England that by 1300 A.D., the Southhampton Old Bowling Club was organized - a club that is still in existence.  The game became so popular in England and also in France that it was eventually prohibited by law, because archery, essential in those days to national defense, was being neglected.  however, bowling was not suppressed in Scotland, where it attained great popularity.  Scottish bowlers developed the present flat green game and established rules of play, some of which are still used in our modern games.

In England and Scotland elaborate facilities have been built completely enclosing greens for winter play, and the BBC televises tournament competitions almost every month.  Royalty in England played and enjoyed the game.  King Henry VIII had a bowling green installed at Whitehall, where it is reported that Anne Boleyn rolled a few before her untimely demise.

The "biased" wooden bowl was first introduced in the 1500s.  Up until then the bowls were perfectly round.  Wooden bowls were used up until the introduction of our composition or plastic bowl. However, even today, the British still refer to them as "woods."

British officers installed bowling greens in the American Colonies, in New York in 1725, and in Port Royal, Canada, in 1734.  The game lost popularity during the Revolutionary War, and was not revived in the United States until a hundred years later, when a club was started in New Jersey. In 1899 the first bowling green on the west coast was built in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The first club in Southern California was formed in Los Angeles in 1908.

In 1937, William V. Jones, a recent arrival in the Harbor area from British Columbia contacted several friends with the idea of organizing a lawn bowling club here in Newport Beach.  Businessmen in the area were contacted and with donations of $5 and 10, a total of over 2000 was collected to assist in building a green.  In the fall of that year the Newport Beach City Council was approached, and after a great deal of effort, a site, then in use as a camping place on the Balboa Peninsula, was obtained.  This site was next door to the present-day American Legion clubhouse.

Building the green presented quite a problem.  Good soil was needed to replace the sand, and the City of Newport Beach responded by furnishing trucks and people for the job.  The Hayward Lumber Co. donated lumber for a small equipment shed and for a fence to surround the property.  Although few in number, the members leveled the ground, planted the grass seed and did the watering.  They also hand-mowed and rolled the green which was finally ready for play in the summer of 1938.  On January 16, 1939, Articles of Incorporation were filed with the California Secretary of State.  Bylaws were adopted and with very few amendments, are still the guide for operation of the club today.

The club continued operations at its Peninsula site, but with growth in membership it became apparent in the late 1960s that a new and larger location would be needed.  After discussion with the Newport Beach Parks and Recreation Department and The Irvine Company, a site was selected at the corner of San Joaquin Hills Road and Crown Drive that would accommodate two greens.  With additional funding from the Joslyn Foundation and donations from its own members, a clubhouse and additional facilities were constructed on the property, and the greens were ready for play in 1972.

Newport Harbor club is affiliated with the United States Lawn Bowls Association, which gives our members an open-door privilege to some 9,000 lawn bowling clubs all over the world.  The national lawn bowls associations are divided into seven Divisions, and we are a part of the Southwest Division, consisting of 28 clubs from Santa Maria in the north to San Diego in the south, with more than 2,500 members.  The southwest Division helps to sponsor tournaments practically every weekend of the year somewhere within the area.

With exceptionally good fiscal management over the past years, and support for the City of Newport Beach, we have been able to provide our membership with one of the best lawn bowling facilities in all of Southern California.

                                                                                                            ― Blair Lord

 

"What Lawn Bowling Means to Me"

". . . there is a certain camaraderie among lawn bowlers not found in any other sport.  It is excellent exercise, does not take a whole day of time, and good sportsmanship is always present.  Millions of Americans, not just a few thousand, should be on the green, for once a person becomes a member of a club and gets on the green, he will find that his future will be filled with untold pleasures  . . . and many added years."

                                                                                                            — Walt Disney


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Past Presidents
 

1939

*Fred Storey

1975-76

*M.A. Manderbach

1940

*A.B. Rouselle

1977

*Richard Weisner

1941

*Harry W. Hammond

1978

Glyn M. Baker

1942-45

Suspended during war

1979

*Alexa Hamptom

1946

*Richard McIntosh

1980

*Joe Walton

1947

*Thomas Halliwell

1981

*Iola Mazzetti

1948-49

*DeWitt Bauer

1982

Cliff Stevens

1950

*Fred Crosier

1983

*Bob Hicks

1951

*George P. Wilson

1984

Max Bartosh

1952

*Joe Stamp

1985

Hal Royston

1953-54

*Nick Brettner

1986

*Charles H. Fontius

1955

*Lloyd Steeves

1987

Blair Lord

1956

*Ed J. Murset

1988

Max Bartosh

1957

*Walter C. Pearson

1989

Gail Hodgson

1958

*William C. Perrow

1990-91

Blair Lord

1959

*L.E. Bennett

1992

*Leonard Diggens

1960

*Drive J.E. Denhart

1993

John Amies

1961

*Drive L. Morgan

1994

Blair Lord

1962

*Donald M. Slyh

1995

*Bill Bemus

1963

Johnnie Walker

1996

John Amies

1964

*William C. Tesche

1997

Max Bartosh

1965

*L.J. Klyn

1998-99

Rita Thompson

1966

*Stanley LeLievre

2000

Theresa Weaver-Casanova

1967-68

*L.E. "Al" Morrison

2001-03

Clare Donovan

1969

*Angus Potter

2004

Jim Altobelli

1970-71

*Delbert Tarbox

2005

Shep Sheppard

1972

*Charles Morrison

2006

Ray Norris

1973

*Delbert Tarbox

2007

Ray Norris

1974

*Stanley LeLievre

2008

John Groothuis

 

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Last revised: 02/02/2010

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