The Greens North Sydney

As you line up on the green, the smooth, cool weight of a bowl in your hands, you can’t help but feel the tradition of a sport passed down through the generations. It’s a sport a millennia in the making, said to have come from the ancient Egyptians. As time moved forward, the game spread and evolved into various forms around the globe, from Italy and England to Denmark and even the Pacific Islands. The game of bowls as we know it today has its roots in Scotland, where the laws of the game were written. It’s that game our members have been playing since we were founded on 25 April 1888 in St Leonard’s Park. As the second oldest bowls club in NSW, thousands of our members have practiced, competed and progressed through the ranks, many going on to compete in the highest grade of their pennant competitions and be selected to represent the local district sides. Bowls is something that we Aussies are proud of – and we should be, too, as we Australian lawn bowlers make up more than 40% of the world’s bowling population. But it’s not just for the competitions that we bowl. It’s for the time spent with friends, the mateship and the well-earned cold one at the end of the day.