California weather has long attracted out-of-state visitors looking to spend time outdoors. They flock to the golden coast to surf, bike and rock climb and, as it happens, “play bowls.” More than 300 ...

SANTA CRUZ >> Glen Johnson, 88, executed what appeared to be the perfect forehand draw, his bowl sweeping slowly from right to left across the 150-foot-long lane of artificial turf at the Santa Cruz ...

California weather has long attracted out-of-state visitors looking to spend time outdoors. They flock to the golden coast to surf, bike and rock climb and, as it happens, “play bowls.” More than 300 ...

DERRICK: SOME OF THE NATION’S BEST BOWLERS ARE IN MILWAUKEE, BUT IT’S NOT THE BOLDING YOU ARE USED TO. MADISON: THE LAWN BOWLING NATIONAL SHOULD BE LAKE PARK IS UNDERWAY WITH THE WOMEN COMPETING ...

At first glance, the crowd dressed in white gathered at the southwest corner of Eisenhower Park in East Meadow might look as if they’re playing bocce, the popular summer sport of backyard barbecues.

The afternoon sun is drying out the rink, it’s the last end of the match, and the jack is surrounded. What do you do? Heave and hope to cut your losses, or use your bias to bowl your way to victory?

MITCHELL – When Rod Titze was a boy, he would watch his father and other adults compete in a tantalizing sport forbidden to children. In the 1950s, and for the 30 years before and after that decade, ...

Pass Newport Harbor Lawn Bowling Club’s grounds off San Joaquin Hills Road on a Tuesday night, and you might catch a glimpse of an unexpected scene. Instead of the “token” lawn bowling group of ...

Tucked behind Witter Pool in Mission Park, members of the Spokane Lawn Bowling Club congregate over a pile of colorful spheres. They watch anxiously as one member crouches down, pulls out a ...

What is now simply an open space covered with gravel and a few scraggly bushes will, within a year, be transformed into a pristine green surface, capable of hosting every level of lawn bowls ...

Brian O'Byrne rolls his bowl toward the jack. Their lawn bowling rink has lights so they can play at night. Essex County Lawn Bowling Club has been around Watsessing Park since the early 1920's. They ...