The SPA Singles and Shooting on Saturday 21st and the SPA Doubles on Sunday 22nd of August were held at Perth Petanque’s Piste on the North Inch in Perth. Saturday’s weather forecast wasn‘t promising, however the early morning scotch mist didn’t turn to rain and the sun put his hat on and came out to play! […]
On a sweltering hot summer Sunday we expected a good turnout for our melee and saw twenty participants from Ayr, Twechar, Stirling, Drymen and Perth. This being quite a result as attendances at opens lately are quite worryingly small. We breakfasted royally while the most complicated draw in the Scottish calendar was ably plucked from […]
The William Leishman Memorial Trophy was held by the Ayr Petanque Club on 11th July. Only eleven players – six from Ayr and five Perth – turned up, albeit on a damp and stormy morning to compete for the WLM Trophy on APC’s piste at the Scottish Bowling Centre in Ayr. Where have all the […]
The Finlay Morrison Memorial Pairs was held at the North Inch in Perth on 4th July. On a most unpleasant morning, raining cats and dogs and an almost flooded piste, 5 teams from Perth – I don’t blame others from the provinces for not turning up – paddled their way to the sanctuary of the […]
A Pairs competition was hosted by the Birds and Bees Petanque Club at the Birds and Bees in Causewayhead, Stirling on 13th June. On a pleasant calm, sunny and warm early summer Sunday morning 5 teams, rolled up bright and early to the Birds and Bees. The teams were – Zandra and Bob B and […]
SPA Grand Prix 3 was hosted by Fochabers Petanque Club on Sunday 6th June. Players representing clubs from Inverness, Fochabers, Perth, Stirling, Inverleith and Troon registered thirteen teams to play in GP3. Maybe the forecasted weather kept some of the other teams away for the final round of the GP Series. The format was a seven […]
The Margaret Burden Memorial Pairs open competition was contested on 30th May by 9 teams. The disappointing turn-out could have been due to a number of factors, it being a bank holiday weekend with a poor weather forecast perhaps? Those who did make it, from Troon, Perth and Twecher, had to contest with changeable weather. […]
SPA Grand Prix 2 was hosted by Inverness Petanque Club on Sunday 16th May. Players representing clubs from Inverness, Fochabers, Perth, Stirling, Inverleith and Troon registered eighteen teams to play in GP2, an increase of three from GP1. The three extra teams, all from Inverness, were the Harvey Smiths, the Fairway Drifters and the Simpolthoms. It […]
The Frank Malcolm Memorial Melee was held at the North Inch in Perth on 9th May. On a most pleasant sunny spring day thirty five players – 13 from Perth, 12 from Inverleith, 7 from the Birds and Bees, and 3 from Troon – came to Perth to pay their respects to one of the […]
SPA Grand Prix 1 was hosted by Inverleith Petanque Club at Inverleith Park in Edinburgh on Sunday 25th April. Players representing clubs from Inverness, Fochabers, Perth, Stirling, Inverleith and Troon registered fifteen teams to play in GP1, a number that bodes well for GP‘s 2 and 3. The format was a seven round Snake (six games […]