Dowerin Swoops in for Country Club of the Year Award
Bowls WA Awards Night – Country Club of the Year Award The Jim Murray Award for the Country Club of the Year has been awarded to the Dowerin Bowling Club.
Dowerin took out the award due to a combination of their performance on green and in recruiting new members to the club. Club President Darrel Hudson headed a sizeable delegation in accepting the award at the Bowls WA Awards Night who were all incredibly pleased.
Mr Hudson explained how much the award meant to the club and what they did to get there. “This is the cherry on top of the cake,” he said. “We’ve had a pretty good year we won the two men’s pennants in the Avon League, the ladies came from the bottom to sixth but probably more importantly we picked up ten percent more members.”
When asked what the club had done to pick up that membership boost Mr Hudson had a simple answer. “You ask people to play,” he said. “When they play you take them somewhere like we take guys to Country Week. I took a guy to Country Week this year that had never played on grass before.”
Dowerin has a big focus on participation, evidenced by the fact that every member played in pennant competition this season.
Dowerin had strong participation in league events with twelve men and six women competing in the League Singles including the two winners. The strong representation carried on through to the other league events.
Three men and two ladies were picked to represent the Avon League with Darrel Hudson going on to represent the Eastern Zone at the Inter-Zone Round Robin.
The strength of the participation culture at Dowerin was summed up by Mr Hudson.
“We’ve got a saying in Dowerin if you’ve got an arm and two legs you can play bowls, well we gave that away because we’ve got a guy in a wheelchair that plays bowls so you just need an arm,” he said.
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