Stanground Carpet Bowls

Name: Stanground Carpet Bowls
Start: 2024-10-09T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-09T16:00:00+01:00
Location: The George Alcock Centre

Schedule

Wed Oct 09 2024 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

The George Alcock Centre | Peterborough, EN

Carpet bowls is a variant of lawn bowls played indoors.
Bowls are delivered from an 18-inch-wide (460 mm) space at the front of the carpet and must avoid an 18-inch circular block placed in the centre of the carpet. The Jack is 2.5 inches in diameter (the same as for indoor bowls) and is placed on a centre line 3–6 feet from the end of the carpet.
Aficionados of carpet bowls are keen to point out that, because a bowl must be delivered within the 18-inch delivery area whilst not standing on the carpet, it is rare for players to attempt to "break up the head" (attempting to spoil the end by delivering a forceful bowl that knocks the bowls and jack randomly). Carpet bowlers regard this as a point of superiority over indoor bowls and short-mat bowls, as carpet bowls is really a game that relies heavily on the art of quality drawing woods and less on power and fortune.