Floy Torvid Pairs Lawn Bowling Tournament at Arcadia County Park brings out serious bowlers

Happy with their First Place finish, Marinko Tudor and Gene Plunkett beam with pride after defeating the seven other teams in the Floy Torvid Pairs Tournament on Thursday, March 6th, at the Santa Anita Bowling Green Club facilities in the Arcadia County Park. (Photo by Steve Parise).

Floy Torvid Pairs Lawn Bowling Tournament at Arcadia County Park brings out serious bowlers
The tournament last week saw eight teams vying for the money. The format for this tournament is to play a 12 end game, have lunch and play another 12 ender to wrap up the day. After all of the games were played and the scores tallied, the winners of Thursdays games were Marinko Tudor and Gene Plunkett. 2nd place was filled by Kay Tong and Don Keightley. Third place was Alan Ngo and Steven Parise. Rounding out the top four teams was the duo of Margi Rambo and Sandy Dalzell.Others in the competition were Sean McMorris, Raymond Lu, Houdini Ho, Juanita Jones, Marc Rich, Joy Wang, Jim Miller and Fan Hung. Lawn Bowling is an easy game to learn. All you need is the desire to learn, flat sole shoes, and an appointment for free lessons. The club will provide the equipment and bowls and instruction. The rest is up to you. To find out more about the Santa Anita Bowling Green Club, go to their web site: www.lawnbowling-arcadia.com and poke around and see what you can find. You can also go to the e-mail address: lawnbowling4u@yahoo.com. After you check it out, and want to take lessons, call Gene Plunkett at 626-351-5327. Ask questions and set up a time to get going in lawn bowling. It’s FREE. Since the cool season is upon us, there is evening bowling under the lights, and daytime bowling too. Drop by and watch and ask questions on aSaturday morning at 9 AM. There are lots of bowlers wanting to tell you all about this best kept secret ithe sporting world. Like the motto says: “Lawn bowling is happy times with good friends.”

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