Our team consisted of Judy Cullinane, Sue Webb, Lee Pudney and me, representing the Bowls section of the Mercury Bay Club. Although it’s the same people as Thursday night bowls, it is a separate club associated with the Mercury Bay Club, Cook Drive. There were 160 women competing over the four days with Singles, Pairs, Triples and Fours. Section and post section games down to the last eight were played at the centre and the last eight semi-finals and finals were played back at the Invercargill W.M.C.
There was a high standard of play and while we didn’t make any finals, we enjoyed playing against so many other teams and when watching the finals, we realised that most of the teams in the finals were ones we had played in section play and had even won against them earlier.
We certainly felt it was a worthwhile experience for us and will help our bowls.We thank the Mercury Bay Club, Bowls Adjunct for providing us with the opportunity to take part in this tournament. The southern hospitality was great, the weather was very frosty mornings but blue-sky sunny days, no wind or rain we had an enjoyable week.
