National Competitions for men and women are run by Bowls England and the competitions for 2027 are managed from here.
County competitions for men are run by Kent County Bowling Association and for the women by their website here . Entry dates and rules can be found on their respective websites. The Club organises entries on behalf of members through the Secretaries of the Men's and Ladies' Sections.
The KCBA divides the historic County of Kent into 4 Divisions. An interesting map shows it nicely.
County competitions, as well as producing champions of the County in a particular discipline, also provide entry qualifications for the National events held in Leamington.
There are also Kentish team competitions which the club enters, such as the Bernard Annand Trophy/Shield and the Millennium Trophy and our progress, or otherwise, will be recorded at the end of this page.
Spectator days
Interesting matches will be shown here.
County Competitions 2027 - Men
Rules for matches are here.
Singles
Across Kent the Singles competition is divided into four sections; we are in the most populated section and we will start matches early in May. To get to a final a player in our section has to play many more matches than in other sections!
The draw will be shown here.
Pairs
Triples
The draw will be shown here.
Unbadged Singles
The draw will be shown here.
Fours
The draw will be shown here.
Over 55 Fours
The draw will be shown here.
Cox Cup
Rules
Competition rules for the men's programme can be found here.
County Competitions 2027 - women
The competition bye-laws can be found here.
Two wood singles
Singles
Pairs
Triples
Fours
Senior Fours
Maude Woods
In these singles matches there are play by dates rather than a fixed date.
Mollie Cleggett
A double fours competition.
Rules
Rules for the above Ladies competitions can be found here.
National Competitions 2027
Rules for Nationals will be found here
Open
Men's Singles Over 60
Men's Pairs Over 60
Women's Singles Over 60
Women's Pairs Over 60
Lin Riches and Yvonne Gambrill got through to the area final in 2026, can they go further in 2027?
Mixed Pairs
Mixed Fours
Foundation Pairs
Family Pairs
Champion of Champions
Men
Women
National team events
Men's Top Club
Two Fours
Women's Top Club
Over 60 Mixed Two Fours (Tony Allcock)
In 2026 Canterbury A (Alan Cornfoot, Jeff Vane, Mandy Catt, Alison MacDonald, Steve Wells, Mick Fisher, Lin Riches and Karen Owen) beat Herne Bay B, Lenham, Maidstone, Tonbridge, Sandwich, Horton Kirby (that disposed of Kent teams). Then beat Sutton (from Surrey) for a place in the National Championships at Leamington Spa. There they lost to the eventual champions.
Can we do it again in 2027?
Other major tournaments
Bernard Annand
Two competitions the Shield and the Trophy. The Shield is open to all club members, but the Trophy cannot have County badge players or members who have been part of a team who had previously won a Shield or Trophy competition.
Shield
Trophy
Millennium Cup
This is a competition run by clubs in Mid-Kent and to which we were invited to join a few years ago. We won the competition in 2023. The rinks are a two wood singles, a four wood singles, a pairs, a triple and a four. The scoring system is geared to winning at least three disciplines.