I’ll be honest, I had no idea this shit was going down right here in Camps Bay and Clifton! We’ve all seen the Newbie Bowls website before and it was only today that I looked out the car window and spotted the bowling greens from Victoria Road, overlooking Clifton and La Med! I remembered an invite I had recently received mentioning the “Glen Country Club.”

My God, I yelped, IS this it?!

 

..Seth thought back to the Newbie Bowls invite

 

Surely not?

I asked my driver to turn around and go down the La Med Road to have a look. And there it was, built like something out of The Godfather – “The Glen Country Club.”

“My GOD….that is cool…,” I whispered to myself, as visions flashed through my mind, conceptualising how incredible a day at these blowing greens could actually be.

 

THE GLEN COUNTRY CLUB
Old school flavour – right out of The Godfather
(That man is not stranded on the roof – it is an optical illusion)

  

The GCC bowling greens – as seen from Victoria Road
I am not kidding you – this has not been Photoshopped..

  

The last time I played a festive game of lawn bowls was at Michael “The Wedding Singer” Furter’s bachelor party. Honestly, I can’t recall ever being happier. And those lawns certainly weren’t dangling over the Atlantic Ocean.

I mean, God, can you imagine? Sinking a few cold ones with your mates on a gorgeous Summer’s day?

Shame!

With the boys and girls all in shorts?

In the sun? Followed by the sunset?

Just off Victoria Road? Next to the sea?

Shame! It’s like playing Boules on the beach!

These guys have got it spot on! Never before has it made more sense for the younger lot to indulge in a bit of bowls. Heavens, it’s where “shooting some pool” wants to be!

Check out their website and click on Tournaments at the top and get a team together before it’s too late. I personally guarantee you a good time. I’ll even let you throw the jack..

19th, 26th October and 2nd November are the dates to go for.

See you there!