Wednesday 25th April

The team of Surachot, Erik, Phil & Colin emerged victorious from the 17 bowlers who turned out for an absolutely terrible day at PS bowl where they currently have staff shortages and the computers were down and the machinery was not much better with the staff having to return the balls regularly. Despite this the best individual scores were recorded by new face Nick with 252 and Erik on 253. Things will have to change or we will change.

Wednesday 18 April

This weeks winning team consisted : Da, Ron, Ken and Jo. Repeat winner from last week Jo is having a good run. Another close comp with only six pins separating the top two teams after three games. The competition was played in relative comfort while the first rain storm for the year pelted down in a howling gale outside. The high scorers for the day were Yung with a 246, Les with a 230 and Ron with a 226.

Wednesday 11 April

The bowling is becoming almost too popular with Les flat out to keep track as the group seems to grow each week. The winners by a huge margin this week were Jo,Yung,Oi & Bob with some terrific individual scores in some of the other groups as well. Ron top scored with a 258 game and Garry, Haydn and Oi were only a few pins behind with 256, 255 and 253 respectively. Haydn had a good run of 9 stikes in ten frames but it was just a pity they came at the end of one game and the start of another.

International Bowling League

International meet at PS Bowl
A group of Chiang Mai’s ten pin bowlers from nine different countries meet at PS Bowl, Sriphum Road every Wednesday, and in last week’s event, 25 competitors turned up to do battle. The format is simply to divide the players who arrive into teams by drawing their names from a hat. Then each player bowls 3 games.
(Back row, left to right) Surachot and Ken, with (front row left to right) Da, Emely and Pim, winners of last week’s friendly ten pin bowling at PS Bowl.
A highly efficient handicap system enables any bowler to achieve a score of around 200 per game, and it’s often the odd pin that makes the difference between winning and losing the weekly prize.
With an indivisible number of contestants last Wednesday, 5 teams of four and 1 of five started the tournament, and so the calculator went into overdrive to find the eventual winners, who were Pim, Ken, Surachot, Emely and Da.
It was worth noting that Surachot is not only one of the oldest players at 73 years, but he also has the lowest handicap - often shooting a straight 200 plus.
The atmosphere in the group is competitive, but remarkably friendly, with fun and meeting people high on the agenda. It was good to see an equal number of Thais and foreigners enjoying themselves together.
For anyone interested in chancing their arm, just turn up at PS Bowl any Wednesday at 3.30 p.m. Make yourself known to Les Harvey and he will sort out who plays in which team.