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Inter Club Day starts our competitive year

This year’s annual Inter Club Day tournament saw our club competitive season get underway on
Sunday, April 12, where members took to the rinks in six teams of four representing various
Wraysbury village clubs, to play in a round robin format.

  After the matches, the two top teams were Hilary & Andy Doughton, Howard Brooks and Martyn Hammond (representing the Country and Western Club), and Colin & Val Lambert, Janet Cross and Alastair Gibson  (representing the Short Mat Bowls Club), having both won four out of their five matches. 
  With both these teams having tied on 12pts each, after careful scrutiny it was the Country & Western team who were declared the winners by virtue of their superior shot difference, and so collected their wine prizes to celebrate.

A new friendly opens our match season

Wraysbury BC took on an entirely new challenge with a visit in March to the Hounslow Indoor Bowls Club for a friendly four-rink triples match.
 The Hounslow club has one of the oldest indoor bowls facilities in the country, plenty of car parking, four rinks
with a large seating area and a bar, all run by the members.
  It was a tough challenge and a rude awakening as we lost 100-46.
  We fared better in the next two, with a 80-69 victory at our usual opener away to Chess Vale – a fourth on the trot!  This was followed by
a 51-46 home win against our friends from Staines BC.

The men’s KLV Berkshire season of matches also started with an unusual win at the Royal Household, which has proved a tough place to go.
The 51-41 win and with 2 rinks to 1 gained us valuable 8pt to start the 2026 league campaign.

++ For more details and further coverage through the year, please go to the Match Reports page.

 

Pairs Cup (2025) knockout final

The delayed final of the 2025 Pairs Knockout Cup tournament was eventually played at the end of January, 2026, with Len Carlton & Colin Hood being crowned pairs champions.
  Len & Colin raced into an early lead against Adam Smith & Trevor Woodham and the runners-up
were then on the backfoot and disappointingly could not recover to get a foothold in the game and eventually Len & Colin took the match 21-1.  It was the second Pairs championship cup on the trot for 
our Hoody!
 
 

2026 comes in with a whiteout

AN early January ArcWBC whiteout rink 2026atic blast brought in some snow and icy conditions which meant the rink had to be closed for player safety and rink carpet protection. 
There was some thawing but if icy freezing conditions reappear, members are asked to look out for communications by email or clubhouse notice in case the rink becomes unplayable and has to be closed again. 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Club Awards 2025

The club’s final calendar event, the annual Presentation Dinner took place on Friday, Oct 24, and the winners and finalists of our house competitions collected their trophies and certificates to applause celebrating their achievements.

Trophy winners on parade  .......

Trophy winners 25 a

 

     ** Full details and more pictures can be found on the Presentation Dinners page.

 

League Tournaments 2025

Our Pairs League competition day was held on Sunday, Oct 12, when this year
12 teams took part in a two-division round robin contest, with the top team
from each battling it out in the final to decide the champions.

  Taking the trophy this yLeague pairs finalists 25 xear were
  Ivan Catchpole & Sean Langford, 
  who showed some class bowling
  to overcome  Martin Wilson &
  Adam Smith. 
   Both pairs earned their place in the
  final by winning four out of the 
  five matches in their division.   
  It was a memorable day for
  Ivan and Sean whose triumph gave
  them their first trophy success 
  at Wraysbury. 

    Men's League

  Martin Wilson (pictured far left) 
made up for missing out on the Men's Cup title by gaining a 22-10 victory against his old rival Colin Hood in a shoot-out final to take the League honours.
   The men's league was played in two divisions and the winner of each played the final. 
Both players won through winning all their matches, though Martin had fewer games due to withdrawals so was perhaps fresher for the final !

  

Ladies' Leagueangela

  Angela Teale won all her matches to become Ladies' League champion this year, going one better than her runner-up spot in the Ladies' Singles Cup.

 

 

   

  Club Cup Finals

  Men’s Singles Championship Cup 2025

The men’s final this year was an entertaining and absorbing encounter with the result only decided in a thrilling last end – and it was Martyn Hammond (MH) who took the honours against Martin Wilson (MW) 18-17.
Mens cup final 25x  After a strong start by MH with a four on the first end, it was MW who took command, winning seven straight ends  to go
11-5 up. 
  The match then got going as a contest, as winning ends went back and forth but after the 20th end MW lead by 5 shots and needed just one more to reach the 18 required. 
However MH fought back and closed to just two shots adrift and three shots for a win.
 The climax came on the 23rd end as MH held four, all within a foot of the jack. MW had the last wood and tried to get into the head but only managed to clip one of the woods and went through the smallest of gaps to leave MH the three shots needed for victory.
What a finish! 

Ladies' Singles Championship Cup 2025 

 Jackie Carlton got on to the honours board for the first time when winning the Ladies Ladies’ Singles title in a close contest with Angela Teale, coming out on top 18-16 in the final.

  

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A Memorial Day Scorcher

The Memorial Pairs Trophy was played in very warm conditions and our major
in-house tournament had 11 teams competing, with the victors this year being
Val Lambert & Len Carlton who beat Margaret Perkins & Adam Smith by
7 shots to 1 in the final.

  The teams were divided into two mini-leagues and played each other, with the top team in each contesting the final. Val & Len were joint top of their group with Ian & Brenda Smith but won through on better shots score, while Margaret & Adam won all their group games.
 The final Mem Day 25 finalistsstarted with Val & Len storming the first end taking a 4-shot lead.
 Margaret & Adam tightened things up and were unlucky on the third when Adam took the jack with his final bowl but disappointingly moved it to their opponents.
 Margaret & Adam battled on but seemed to tire which wasn’t helped by them having just played a delayed last group match shortly before the final. 
 Val & Len kept on the pressure and clinched the match to take the trophy.

 

(Our winners Len & Val are pictured
   on the left)

  

Inter Club Day 2025

 This year’s summer season got under way with the annual
Inter Club Day tournament on Sunday (April 13), where members took to the rinks with five teams of four representing various Wraysbury village clubs, played in a round robin format.

  It was a competitive event, though with some added fun banter as usual.  And it was a weather of two halves  – sunny and warm in the morning but cloudy with a shower which forced a short break in the afternoon.

 Taking the honours this year were the team representing the Village Club – Fred Parsons, Corinne Smith, Bev Laye and skip Dave Laye.  They were undefeated with three wins and a draw and, in a virtual hot shot finish, won their last game by a stunning nine shots.
Inter Club winners a 2025

 Bev & Dave seem to like this tournament as they were in the winning team last year.

 Runners-up were the Country & Western team of Sue Bennett, Trevor Woodham, Mike McLachlan and Andy Doughton with two wins and a draw. 

 

   

Winter Cup 2024 - 2025

 The Final of the Wraysbury Village Trust Winter Cup this year was

played in glorious spring sunshine (on April 3) ... and the victorious pair were
Trevor Woodham & Colin Hood with a sweeping 32-9 win against
Martyn Hammond & Martin Wilson.

   WCup winners 2025The Marts played some decent bowls but were thwarted by the consistency of Woody & Hoody and, after nine ends at halfway, were 5-19 down, having shipped a six and five during that spell.

   They continued to battle away though, including a brilliant four, but Trevor & Colin continued to edge the ends and maintain their advantage to take the honours.

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