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.
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