David Bradford has won the Canada Life Manx Championship for the first time beating Port St Mary’s Trevor Quayle 21-15.

Full report here https://www.iombowls.com/david-becomes-goliath-with-manx-championship-victory/

The draw and results for each round can be found here http://iombowls.challonge.com/mensmanxchampionship2015

To recap on the blog of the weekends events click here https://www.iombowls.com/mens-manx-championship-2015-live-blog/

The draw for the Capital Life International Manx Championship has been made.  Below are all the start times for the entered players.

Full preview is available here

To view the draw click here

Start Times By Club

Ballaugh

Castletown

Douglas

Finch Hill

Marown

North Ramsey

Onchan

Peel Sunset

Port Erin

Port St Mary

South Ramsey

The Manx Championship takes place this weekend.  All entries should be sent directly by:

Email: [email protected]
Text/Phone: 425242.

You can view full information about the competition on its dedicated page

The full results from yesterdays historic County match between the Isle of Man and Shropshire.

Home Leg

Away Leg

Team line-ups are available on the event page by clicking here

The Isle of Man’s top crown green bowlers will be able to test their skills against the best in the world as they take part in the Endsleigh Senior County Championships on Sunday May 3. A home fixture will be held at Peel Sunset Bowling Club from 12:30pm with an away game in Shropshire on the same day.

It would be fantastic to see a big crowd at Peel to support the Isle of Man Team on what will be historic and great afternoon of bowling.

Ahead of the Championships, Minister of Education and Children Tim Crookall MHK, whose department includes Manx Sport and Recreation, offered his congratulations to the organisers and his best wishes to all participants, especially those visiting from the UK.

“The hard working volunteers from the Isle of Man Crown Green Bowls Association, and specifically those who have helped deliver their long-established development plan, deserve credit for bringing their vision to life with these inaugural fixtures.

The Championships are considered to offer the highest level of Crown Green Bowls competition in the world. There are exciting times ahead for the sport, after some excellent work by the Isle of Man Association’s Development Officer Mark Kneen to secure the Island’s participation,”

Click here to watch the interview by Mark Kneen with Paul Moulton of MTTV

Roundup of the three opens contested this weekend.

On Saturday in the ladies singles at Ballaugh Margaret Tasker came through a tough field to win the Pearl Kaighin beating Philippa Fletcher 21-9 in the final.

In the Mens Singles at Marown Rob Monk won his maiden singles open beating Ian Moore 21-10 to clinch the Henry Kissack Memorial Trophy.

On Sunday 12 teams took part in the Jim Kernan.  Each team consisted of four players two playing singles and the others competing in a doubles with the winner of each match decided on total chalks.  The final turned out to be an all Onchan affair with David Bradford beating Glynn Hargraves 21-13.  Jordan Cain beating Matthew Quirk 21-17 and Matthew Keggen & Peter Slinger beating Phil Kerruish & Kevin Quirk 21-11 meaning an overall victory of 63-41 for Cain, Bradford, Keggen and Slinger.