Bowling Wed 24 Dec

23 players showed up for the Christmas eve bowling, making 5 teams of 4 and 1 team of 3.

One high score prize of 100bht this week and it went to Ram with a total gross score of 252.

This week the team that was leading after the two games were the winners of the 800bht team prize. Which is some what unusual because most of the time they don't win. The winning team was John V, Dan.E, Martin and Ken with a total team score of 2494.

No bowling next week because of new years eve . Please pass the word around to people who were not at bowling this week. I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year and may the new year bring good fortune and good health !!!

See you all next year- Yung

bowling wed 17 Dec

Welcome back to Graham and Lee ! Again a large crowd of 40 people making 10 teams of 4 . No one bowled over 500 this week but An Lincoln was the closest to 500 with a 493 net pins, so he is the best bowler for the week.

Three high score prizes this week. An Lincoln bowled his personal best score 224 net pins to take the high score prize of a 100bht with a total gross score of 284 . Jim C. won the 2nd high score prize with a total gross of 254 to win a100bht. The last prize of 100bht was split between Yafong and Rene with both of them getting a total gross score of 248.

After the 2nd game Jim's team looked like they were going to win . But An Lincoln,Colin,Yafong.and Micheal had a amazing last game to beat Jim's team for the 800bht team prize .Their total gross team score was 2550.

Jim C.,Corky,Gary L.and Yung came in 2nd to win 400bht with a total gross team score of 2512. Sorry no pictures this week . See you next week. Thank you Jo for arranging the Christmas party!!

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year . Yung

Bowling Wed 10 Dec

Welcome back to Gerry !!! Large crowd this week with 36 players making 9 teams of four. The best bowler for the day was Erik with a total net score of 505 pins (note of interest..this is the first time in about 6 weeks that a player has bowled over 500.

The high score winners were Micheal and Erik. Micheal had a great last game and bowled a 204 (net) to end with a total gross score of 268pins to win a 100baht. Erik also had a good last game and bowled 194(net) to end with a total gross score of 262 pins to win the other 100baht.

Erik, Ken, David W and Micheal bowled a fantastic last game to have a total team score of 2561 pins to win the 800baht team prize this week.

2ND place team prize of 400baht went to Jim C, Pung, Brock and Dan E with the a total team score of 2535 pins.

see you next week -Yung

Bowling Wed 3 Dec

This week 20 players making 5 teams 4 .

Corky and Kevin had the high score for this week with a total gross score of 256 each but unfortunately no H/S prize .

Scott, Les, Nang and Gary L bowled steadily over 800 through all three games to take the win this week with a total combine team score of 2480 .

See you all next week-Yung

Bowling Wed 26 Nov

27 players this week making 6 teams of 4 and 1 team of 3.

Two high score prizes this week. Phil W. had a good last game to take 1st H/S prize of 100bht with a total gross score of 243. 2nd H/S prize of 100bht was split between Kevin and Ken with a total gross score of 240 each.

Three teams were in contention to win after the 2nd game. But in the end the team that won the 1st place prize of 800bht was Phil W, John B, Ken and Dao (again!!) with a total team score of 2461.

Same place same time next week - Yung

Bowling Wed 19 Nov

Welcome to two visitors this week, Piet from holland who is Martin's father in-law and Danny From Canada who is Dan Severson's son. Back to normal numbers again with 32 players making 8 teams of 4.


The 1st place winners were Dao, Corky, Colin and Scott (again !!) with a total team score of 2517. Scott's luck must be changing by being on the winning team two weeks in a row. 2nd place went to Les, Micheal, Na and Phil H. with a total team score of 2471.

Also, if you are intending to go to the Christmas Party at the Old Bell numbers are limited so make sure you pay your B500 a head to Jo next week.

See you next week Yung

Bowling Wed 12 Nov

This week we had the lowest turnout ever of 17 people. Making up 2 teams of 4 and 3 teams of 3.

High score goes to Les with a gross total of 252 pins but no prize this week.

Jim.C, Rene and Scott took a commanding lead after the 1st two games and never looked back. They won 600bht with a combined team score of 2545.

see you all next week Yung

Bowling Wed 5 Nov

Once again this week there were 33 players. Making 5 teams of 4 and 3 teams of 3. No great performances by anybody this week. It seems that most of the people are going the wrong way with their handicap. Only a few people have gone down this week. It must be the winter blues.

High score prizes went to Garry W. with a total of 255 and Ken with a total of 247.

Garry W, Martin, Len and Jeff had a very good last game to take the 1st prize of 800bht for the win this week with a total team score of 2486.

see you next week . Yung

Bowling Wed 29 Oct

Welcome to An Lincoln (who will be joining us here in CM soon) and John Brown from Isan golf club. They both proved to be good bowlers and I hope that you will join us again next time both of you are Chiang Mai.

This week there were 33 players. 6 teams of 4 and 3 teams of 3.

The high score goes to Surachot with a total of 274 (with handicap). Without handicap he scored a net 224 (great game!!!!). He is the best bowler for the week with a total of 503 pins.

The winners for 1st place prize of 800bht were Erik, Ning2, Phil W, and Sal with a combined team score 2591.

2nd place prize of 480bht went to Jo, Dan S, Nungruk and Pung with a combined team score of 2454.

See you all next week Yung

Bowling Wed 22 Oct

Welcome to three newcomers John Q, Kung and Sal. See you next week hopefully.

This week there were 34 players. Making up 6 teams of 4 and 2 teams of 3.

1st place winners for 600bht were Nungruk, John V & Ram with a total team score of 2454.

2nd place went to Rene, Mon, Michael and somsee with a total team score of 2420 .

High score prize went to Rene with a total gross pin fall of 250 .

Low score went to Kung.

Next week at the same place and same time. Yung

Bowling Wed 15 Oct

Dao & her assistant Yung organised the 27 players into 6 teams of 4, & 1 team of 3.
We hope to see newcomers Kevin, Franz, Urs & Puk again next week. It was also good to see Phil H, Nang, Rene & Pung back.
Going into game 3 it looked like Gary L's team were going to win but Les' team made a good comeback to win for the week by 15 pins.
Winners were Les, Phil W, Rene & Dao, total team score of 2465.
2 prizes for high score this week with a total net score were Phil W (he of the massive handicap!) 245 & Somsee with 246.
Honourable mention goes to Gary L, Jimmy, Ning 2 & John V team score of 2450, unfortunately no 2nd place this week.
There is a winning team photo, but I've been unable to attach it, so we'll have to wait until Garry's back!

Bowling Wed 8 Oct

Welcome back to 'H' and wife Koy back in Thailand for a short stay and Gary L returned from his European tour looking trim, taunt & terrific . This week there were 30 people who came out to play, resulting in 4 teams of 4 and 2 teams of 3 .

After two games it looked like les's team was unbeatable . But a determined Somsee had a good last game to pull her team into the lead and win this week . But as usual it was very close in the end and Somse's team only won by 2 pins.

So, the winners this week were Somsee, Dennis, Scott and Jo with a total team score of 2484 pins and a disapointing 2nd place place went to Les, Yuki and John B with a total team score of 2482 pins.

see you all again next week. Yung

Bowling Wed 1 Oct

This week we say goodbye to Bacca,who goes back to OZ for work . See you next year .

There were 25 players this week . 4 teams of 4 and 3 teams of 3 .

The best performance for this week went to Jeff and John B . Jeff had a total gross of 543 pins and John B .had a total gross of 505 pins .Keep up the good bowling .

The winners were Rex, Martin and Graham S. with a total team score of 2612 .

2nd. place went to Jim C.,Ning2,Jeff and John B. with a total team score of 2605 .

see you next week. Yung

Vale - Anita

It is with much regret that I must inform you all of the passing of Anita at age 90 years last week.

Unfortunately, we were informed too late to organise anything for her cremation on Saturday but I do believe that Rex & Jo attended and undoubtedly would have relayed our respects.

She is remembered by and will be sadly missed by all who knew her I am sure.

Bowling Wed 24 Sept

Everyone back from Holidays and a good turn-out.

It was Ken Taylors 70th Birthday and the good wishes and cake were passed around.

Winners on the day were Garry, Erik, Jimmy & Rex

see you all next week

Bowling Wed 17 Sept

Sorry no report for 17 Oct

Both myself and Les away on holidays

See you next week

Bowling Wed 10 Sept

Welcome back to Len, Noel & Phil Williams and I think Phil has been having a bit of practice while in Wales, whereas Len & Noel are just happy to be back. There were 27 people competing in 6 teams of 4 and one team of three. High Score prizes went to Surachot and John B while the winners on the day were JJ, John B, Colin and Ning 2 although it was a close call with Surachots team coming down to the last frame. See you all next week.

Bowling Wed 3rd Sept

Three more new faces this week. Welcome to Dennis, Sarita and Eddie. Hope to see you all again next week. Anita returned from her American Trip, alas not in the best of health and was not able to bowl. But it was her Birthday and all the Chiang Mai bowlers wished her a Happy 90th Birthday !!! and Rex & Jo presented her with a lovely flower arrangement.

This week we had even numbers again, 9 teams of 4 for a total of 36 players. The best bowler this week was john R with a gross total 532 pins . Winner of the high score for a 140 bht was Jim C with a gross total of 241 pins.

The winners for 800bht were Martin, John V, Chris and Scott with a total team score of 2482. The runners up prize for 400bht went to John R, Ning2, Somsee, and David W with a total team score of 2465 .


See you again next week- Yung

Bowling Wed 27 Aug

This week we say goodbye to Shane who goes back to OZ to work (see you next year) and Les will be away fishing among other things for about month .

There were 36 people present this week making up 9 teams of 4.

The best bowler for this week was micheal with the total gross pin of 497 .

The 1st place winners for 800bht were :David H, Rex, Micheal and JJ with a combined team score of 2574 .
Second place team for 400bht were : Ning3 ,Garry W, Tom and Nongruk with a combine team score of 2522 .

The high score for 100bht went to Tom with 256 and JJ coming in 2nd with a 254 . JJ had a good last game with a gross pin of 196 . The low score prize went to Surachot .

See you all again next week -Yung

Bowling Wed 20 August

Bit late getting this on site again, but better late than never.

No real impressive gross performances this week, but many bowled beyond their handicaps in all three games including Yung, John R, Ben, Wan, Graham S, Garry W, David W, Ning, Jo and Gary L.

We had 35 players, 8 teams of 4 and one of 3.

Wan had a bit of a day out with net scores of 215, 216 & 274. The 274 is a very big score and won the 100 baht high score prize. Wan and Jo both bowled 5 consecutive strikes in their their last frame. Very well done and Jo was close behind highest score with 260.

Winners for 800 baht were Brock 565 (back 2 weeks and 2 wins), Surachot 605, Nongruk 625 and Wan 705. Wan has lost 15 pins off her handicap.

Second place for 400 baht, only 8 pins behind were Corky, David W, Ning and Jo.

Yung will be taking over for a while next Wed, see you there - Les

Bowling Wed 13 Aug 08

Well we had 40 players today. Think that might be most ever. Numbers were swelled by some visitors and maybe some new bowlers. Mark on holiday from Australia staying with Les, Dr Graham a regular visitor from Scotland, Hiro and Yuki, local Japanese known to the golfers, and Brock from Canada back again. We lose Darrell Steen back to Canada this week after a 2 week visit.

Couple of good performances this week with Surachot back in form and the improving Scott, both with 502 gross pins.

Winners today of the 10 teams of 4 for 800 baht were Gary L (644) Brock (647) Colin (699) and Ted (581). Team net score 2571.

Second for 400 baht were Corky (646) Dennis (634) Ken (669) and Shane (600). Team net score 2549.

Highest net score and 200 baht went to Nam with 266 in the last frame after a few others earlier thought they had the money.

Also had a low score prize of 100 baht and we won’t mention names but score was 135.

See you next Wed - Les

Bowling Wed 6 August

35 players this week. One new one Nam who is a pretty good bowler already. Tried to get me to give her 100 handicap. Watched her practice game and gave her 75, she gets a mention below.

No outstanding performances. Yung and John R were best gross bowlers with 453 and 451.

Highest score B 100 to Surachot with gross 246. He also had the best net on the day 659. Others to bowl 3 games above handicap in each game were Jim C (623) Nam (617) David W (613) and Jo (640).

Fairly easy winners of B 800 by 26 pins were Ram, Jo, Garry L and Scott. Total team score 2444.

Second place B 400 to Michael, Mike, Les and Ken with 2418.

As we had 7 teams of 4 and one of 3, we tried a different system of working out scores. Rather than have a team average for all teams, we simply averaged out the team of 3 and multiplied that by 4. Checked this after the game and this system seems to work. Lots less work and gives a team net pins score on the board.

Another week done and dusted - Les

Bowling Wed 30 July

Another good turn out and even numbers. Nine teams of four.

Kim Stogner (known to the golfers) joined us for the first time since May last year. Hope you will become a bit more regular than that Kim.

Chris, Jimmy, Scott, David W, Pim, David H, and John B all managed to better their handicaps in all three games. Well bowled.

Highest net game score 200 baht was shared by Dan S and John B, net 255 each.

Winners 800 baht went to David H (628) John B (682) Dan S (655) and Mike (567) Easy winners by 74 pins on 2542.

Second place 400 baht collected by Scott (642) Som See (551) J J (617) and Dao (658) Team Total 2468.

Three more weeks to go before my holidays (??) when Yung will take over.

Hope to see you next Wed - Les

Bowling 23 July

Seven teams of 4 and two teams of 3 today.

Welcome to newcomers Norm, Peter Roberts, Lek and Shane James here on annual holiday from Australia.

Winners had by far the most consistent performance and were: Susan (626), Nongruk (651), David H (632) and J J (595). Giving them a team ave of 208.6

Close second with team average of 207.2 due a V.G. score by John V (682) with Gary L (567), Wan (631) and John R (607).

It was a battle for high net score going into the last frame with Colin, Shane and John B all on 249, but John V took home the money with a 258 in the last frame. Rex chipped in with a 247 as well.

Don’t forget the staff TIP BOX and try to have practice games completed by 3.50pm.

C U next week - Les

Bowling Wed 16th July

30 players this week, broken up into 6 x 4 and 2 x 3.

Winners for B600 were the three Englishmen – Chris (634) Michael (620 and David W (641) giving them a team average of 210.5.

Runners up for B400 by the lowest of margins (i.e. half a pin) were Lee (658) Ben (636) Scott (641) and Yung (585). Team average 210.0

High net game score B100 was won by H (254) just in front of Lee (250)

Mentioned last week that we were losing Gerry for 3 weeks, that was a misprint a should have read 3 months.

This week H is leaving us to return to work in Africa for a couple of months.

Just a bit of trivia, over the past 3 months four people have won 3 times, Erik – J.J. – Colin & John R. Seven people have won 2 times and twenty seven have won once. So the prizes are pretty well distributed.

On again Wed. when we should see Shane (the man with the arm action) back on holiday from Ozz - Les

Bowling Wed 9th July

37 players again this week. Teams of 4 and one 5.

Yung once again put in the best performance with 528 pins for the day.

Highest net game score was close with Colin 246, Jim 247, R.J.248 but winner of 100B was Yung 249.

Second place was the team of 5 who collected 500B. Gerry (606) Dao (536) Jim (681) Michael (642) and Wan (608) – Team ave 204.8.

First place for the 800B was J.J. (641) Nongruk (589) John.R (642) and Erik (599) – 1.1 pins ahead with team ave 205.9.

Thanks to Yung for taking the nominations and his helpers with the draw – was good to have a break.

We say farewell Gerry this week, returning to Canada, but hope to see him back in about 3 weeks. We all enjoy your company Gerry.

It’s on again next week as usual - Les

Bowling Wed 2nd July

Better late than never. Has been a ‘tuff’ week.

‘Wow’ 38 players today – 8 x 4 and 2 x 3.

Best bowler on the day was Dao with 501 pins down over the 3 games for net 657. Well done.

Winners for 800 baht were John R (643) Ram (653) and Anita (666) who carried Scott (548) for team ave of 209.1

Close behind for 400 baht were John V (654) Dennis (604) David H (606) and Ted (612) with team ave of 206.3.

Gary L and David H shared 200 baht high game score with 249 each. Anita was close with 240.

Okay, that’s it for this edition – see you on Wed - Les

Bowling 25th June

Eight teams of 4 today – perfect numbers.

Good to see Susan, Graham B, and David W back after a few weeks off. Welcome to lady Lee for the 1st time.

No real good performances again, Surachot was the best with gross of 475 pins.

Anita won 200 baht for best net game score of 263 in second frame. Well done Anita, your best game yet I think.

Winners of 800 baht with net team score of 2438 were Ben (650) Lee (1st timer – 572) Richard J (589) and wonder of wonders Les (1st time in 2 years -627)

Second place 400 baht went to Corky (608) Gary L (588) David W (578) and Som See (652). Team total 2426.

We might need some adjudicators at the draw in future as Les got in a winning team, Gary L got to play with the high scoring Som See and Scott maybe picked his own team.

It’s on again next week - Les

Bowling Wed 18 June

8 teams this week including 2 three’s.

No real outstanding performances, Surachot was the best with gross 495 pins after 496 last week, so that’s pretty consistant.

Winners of B 800 were Surachot (633) Dao (666) Jeff (627 and John V (630). Team average 213.

Second for B 400 three pins behind were Jimmy (614) Scott (591) Colin (672) and Ben (643). Team average 210.

So I have heard it said that teams of three have better chance than teams of four. Not the case today anyway.

No high score prize today.

That’s it then, not much else to report on. Hope to see you next week – Les.

Bowling Wed 11 June

Whoops – late getting this on site again.

Nine lanes this week. Only newcomer was Nai (with Jeff) – welcome Nai.

Yung is back into good form lately and is proving to be our best bowler. He knocked over 547 pins today and suffered a 14 drop in handicap for that effort.

Highest Score B 100 went to Michael B 263 who just topped Yung’s 261.

Second team prize B 400 went to Richard 592, Michael B 684 and Ram 588. ( Team ave 207 ). So once again highest individual score gets their team in the money.

By the way would you believe we now have two men with the same name, John Richard. So the newest one is just being referred to as Richard on the scoreboard. ( both of them in the money today ).

Winners for B 800 were Dennis 614, John R 704 (good bowling John) Mike 606 and Colin (again) 623. ( Team ave 212 ).

Would welcome any thoughts about having an International Teams Day sometime.

C. U. next week - Les

Bowling wed 4th June

Boy, the weeks seem to go past fast.

Couple of new players this week. Jeff from Orlando Florida in U.S. who has been around Thailand for a couple of years. And Tim from Stratford-on-Avon in U.K. who has been here 3 years. Tim is a Therapist here in Chiang Mai, so if any of you golfers would like a consultation, I have his number.

33 Players today and best gross bowlers over 3 games was Yung who just failed by 1 pin to reach 500.

J.J. had best day out again today winning high net score B 100 in 2nd frame with 273, which as often happens helped her team to B 800 1st place. J.J. 183-273-204 (660)
Richard 192-227-224 (643) and Mon 233-206-216 (655).

2nd Place B 400 was John B 194-189-196 (579) Mike 222-238-192 (652) and Yung 212-216-248 (676) – 51 pins in arrears.

Just a reminder we would like you all there by 3.30pm or give someone a call and to let us know you are on the way. With numbers of 30+ it takes a bit of time to organize the draw.

Also practice games to finish by 3.50pm so Jack can get the teams up on the monitors before start time of 4pm,

Thank you – hope to see you next week - Les

Bowling Wed 28th May

Even numbers again today, with 7 teams of 4.

Not much to report on. John Richards had top net score of 253 for 200 baht.

Only one team failed to reach the handicap mark. Others were close with 2414, 2420, 2442, 2459 & 2460.

But easy winners for the 800 baht with a very good score of 2520 were – Jo (651) Ben (605) Gerry (621) & Garry W (643). It was only Ben’s second appearance and she's in the money already.

Have a good week, see you next Wednesday - Les

Bowling Wed 21 May

The circus continues to grow – 39 bowlers today. Four new ones, Rene & Pung (known to golfers) with their friends Corky and Ben. Always good to see Phil Hopper back from work in UK with Nang and Lilly.

No performances worth writing home about this week and in fact only 3 teams out of 10 managed to achieve a handicap team average of 200.

Winners for B 750 were a boys team of 3, Jimmy 166-196-220 (582) Ken 195-246-219 (660) & Colin 162-216-225 (603) team average 205.
Colin is in there again !!

Second for B 400 were Jo, Tom, Yung & Garry W with team average of 203.

High game score B 200 won by Nongruk with 254 and second high game B 100 to Ken with 246.

Next week we might put up a nomination form for an International Teams Event in a few weeks time. Just for something different.

Cheers - Les

Wed 14 May

Sorry, a bit late getting last Wed’s results posted, has been a busy week.

Best bowler on the day belonged to Som See again with her 279 – 211 – 242 ( 732 ) or gross 513. Well done Som! Also worth a mention was Michael with 244 – 265 – 179 ( 688 ) or gross 502. What happened in the last frame Michael ?

So Som See won B100 for high net game score of 279 and that helped rest of her team of Ley, David H, and Ken into 1st Place for B800. Total ave team score of 212.

Close behind in 2nd place and B400 were Anita, Jo, Martin and Jimmy with 208 ave.

Supposed to be low season at present, but we re still getting good numbers along with 34 players this week.

See you next Wed - Les.

Bowling Wed 7th May

Still lucky with numbers again and had 7 teams of 4. Welcome back to Garry Lyon’s son David who had a previous game with us last December.

No real good performances, but John V bowled 221-222-231 (674) Scott 221-261-235 (717) Martin 237-245-211 (695) David Lyon 222-216-200 (638) to be above their handicaps in all three games.

Gerry got 216-288-193 (697) to win the high net score B200 with his 288. Obviously tried to protect his handicap in the last game, but he has still loss 16 points down to 61. (that’s more like it)

Winners without a challenge of the B800 were Som See, Martin, Erik and Gerry, total net team score of 2552. Second place were 100 pins behind them, a big win.

A reminder not to forget to pay for the bowling before you leave. One player has missed the past two weeks. I find it a good idea to go pay during the afternoon before finishing (and before the Leo kicks in).

Okay, hope to see you next week.

Some more new faces today. Welcome to David Hub & Ning (No.3) Mike (Anita’s son-in-law) and Keith. Good to have Dennis, Susan and H back with us again as well.

Have been lucky with teams of 4 lately and had 32 players today.

J.J. had the best scores with a gross 507 pins for the 3 games, (net 675) and highest net game score of 250. Sorry no money again for that this week.

After the 2nd game the boys team of Colin, Michael, Ian and Keith were all bowling very well and were looking good for the money, even though they only had a slender lead of 9 pins. However the Singa’s and Leo’s must have kicked in and they all crashed in the last frame to finish out of the placings.

This gave the B 800 to J.J., Koy, Surachot and Jim with a good team score of net 2579.

Second place B 400, went to Ram, Aoi, Les and John B with a good steady performance of 2536.

I think the boys who keep the score etc for us only come in to work for a couple of hours to look after us and it would be appreciated if you could remember the tip box (ice bucket) on the bench, near the score board, on your way out.

Hope to see you next week - Les

Bowling Wed 23rd April

Welcome back to Ian Mackay (with Mon) from U.K. whom we hadn’t seen since last Dec. Also Waw back after 3 months in Bangkok.

5 teams of 5 played today. No special mentions this week. No one bowled over or close to 500.Winners of 200B each and net scores were : Erik 229-203-212 Jo 198-213-197 John B 223-236-203 Ley 189-250-212 and Ian Mac 222-197-217. Toal team net score 3201. All bowled ave over 200 each game. Very hard to beat.

Second place was 48 pins behind them. But all 5 teams bowled over the handicap mark of net 3000, albeit that my team only made it by 8 pins to run last.

Highest net game scores were shared by Ley and Len with 250. But no prize today.

Well the equipment was back to operating okay again today thank goodness. Don’t know whether we had anything to do with that or not. Nothing else of interest –
hope to see you next week - Les

Bowling Wed 16 April

Lennart is heading back to Sweden this week to give someone else a chance of having a win, but he has threatened that he will return. It seems we have started a Swedish connection with Kjell, Nit and Inger joining us today. Also Chris is returning to UK for a while, but sure we will see him again as well.

7 teams of 4 today which was a good number of players, especially with some regulars missing. Ted comes to mind, back in Canada again I understand.

Not many good scores today, probably due to the fact that the machinery was malfunctioning badly again, I know it puts me off. Tried to get the message across to management that if it is the same next week we may have to go play at U.F.O. Bowling. We did this once before and it worked.

Lennart continues to perform better and better. Knocked over 554 pins in his 3 games. ( 164-187-203 ) When he gets back again he will find a handicap of 21 (-14) waiting for him.

Yung seems to get a mention each week and managed to grab to high net score prize with 248, which is the lowest for a while.

Easy winners today were Fon ( 211-201-198 ) Mon ( 207-234-214 ) Lennart ( 199-222-238 ) & Colin ( 188-190-202 ) Team total 2505. This was the only team to better the team handicap mark of 2400. Must make a point of asking Colin how he does it, I haven’t had a collect for bloody ages.

Lets hope lanes are working better next week - Les

Wed 9 April

Welcome Phil & Liz White from Darwin, Australia and guests of Garry W. Also first time out for Gerry Brimcombe, Canadian who spends a good deal of time in Chiang Mai.

Farewell to Bryce, Nee and Jack, hope to see you again next year. Will have the actual handicaps for you next time Bryce and Jack. ( 93 & 136 )

Big crowd again this week 9 lanes of 4. Unfortunately the scoring system wasn’t working to well at all, but the staff managed to correct it fairly quickly most of the time.

Lennart had another good day with top net game score of 278, total 3 game gross score of 526 ( net 664 ) and has reduced his handicap to 35.

Yung’s 3rd game score is worth a mention – 87 – there you go, anyone can do it !!

Winners today were Nongruk ( 592 ) Nee ( 678 ) Colin ( 648 ) and Ken ( 601 ) team total 2469 for 800 baht.

Runners up – Noi ( 659 ) Fon ( 596 ) Erik ( 650 ) and Garry W ( 539 ) team total 2444 for 400 baht.

Hope we don’t get wet next week - Les

Bowling Wed 2 April

Welcome to Bryce Winston, his wife Nee and son Jack on annual visit from Western Australia. Bryce played one game with us last year with a total gross score of only 250, which gave him a handicap today of 116 which proved to be the undoing of the rest of us.

Phil Williams leaves this week for sunny Wales, hope to see him back towards the end of the year. Tell Emely we all miss her at bowling Phil.

7 teams of 4 today made a good number.

Ken, Phil, Nee and Pim were early leaders after the 1st frame by 21 pins over Rex, Yung, Ley and Nongruk. But in the 2nd frame Bryce (h/cap 116) and Lennart bowled net 249 and 253 to give their team with J.J. and Aor a lead of 41 pins (all over red rover). They all carried on in the 3rd frame with Lennart a 238 and Bryce winning the high net score with 278. The team finished with a total net score overall of 2552, best ever I think, that’s a game average of 850 per frame.
Lennart also had the best gross score of the day with 3 game total of 524. Very good team performance.
Rex, Yung, Ley and Nongruk held on to 2nd place with a 2508. Another good performance.

Under our h/cap system Bryce retains a handicap of 92, which I know doesn’t seem right, but that the way we work it out. It will right itself in due course.

See you next week - Les

Wed 26 March

This week we had a perfect turnout of 32 Bowlers which gave us 8 four person teams. Again this week we welcomed two new lady bowlers, Noi and Fon and again this week the fill in handicapper guessed wrong as Noi ended up with the high score of the day at 249. She was closely challenged by Garry W. who recorded a 243.The team of Colin, Rex, Somsee and Lay jumped into an early lead with an 820 and they never looked back. In the second game they followed up with an 843 and an impressive 853 in the third. I should mention that the ladies on the team quite outdid the men with all six of their games over 200! The second place team of Garry W., John V. John b. and Jim had a poor start with a 767 in the first, but came back in the second and third with an 829 and an 859.Next week Les should be back and we all look forward to seeing his smile as he cuts our handicaps to where they should be.

Wed 19 March

The heat must be making people lazy as we had a much smaller turnout this week with only 27 bowlers out for the afternoon. A warm welcome to two new bowlers Sunni and John B.The fill-in handicapper did a poor job of allocating an 80 handicap to John B. as he powered his team into first place in the first game with a 236 helped by team mate Martin who scored a 243. The two ladies in the group Tom and Ley also contributed and gave the team a total of 846 for an average of 211. They continued in this winning way with an 858 in the second and an 824 in the third and the first place prize with a winning average of 210.The race for second place was hot after the second game with the team of Dan S., Dennis, JJ, Dao, tied with Ted, Mr B., Pim, and Sai Tong at an average of 201. However, in the third game Pim, and Sai Tong pulled their team into second place scoring a 230 for Pim and a 240 for Sai Tong. Ted and Mr B. had a 219 and a 187 for a total score of 876 giving them an average of 207 and second place.The high score of the day went to Yung. After a miserable first game, he opened his second game with two open frames and a spare and then another open frame and at this point was not looking good. The next five frames were strikes followed by a spare and a strike to finish the game with 201 scratch and 251 handicapped for the high game prize.

Bowling Wed 12 March

Another huge turnout of bowlers this week with 39 on the lanes. It would have been 40 but Len was held up at the Bank (or holding up the Bank!) and couldn't make it. A warm welcome to 3 new bowlers, Richy who is Anita's grandson, Chan, Mr B's significant other and Laza who came with Colin.

All ten lanes were ready to bowl at 4pm and it was no contest for 9 teams as the team of Colin, John, Sai Tong, and Aoi ran away with an early lead. In the first game they posted an 844 total for an average of 211, with Aoi bowling the high game for game one with a 249. They kept up the pressure in game two with an 835 for an average of 210, and then put the win beyond doubt with a whopping 903 in the third game for a final average of 215.

The closest rivals and second place team of Dao, Erik, Garry W. and Koy scored 805, 823, 834 for a final average of 205. Garry W. tried to put the team in contention with a final game effort of 251 which piped Aoi's high game of 249 and was enough for the high game money and team second place.

With bowling over we said goodbye to Brock who won't be back until December, and wished him well as he deals with the snow and ice of the lingering Canadian winter.

Bowling Wed 5 March

Wow, 42 people turned up this week. Good luck next week Gary Lyon.

Best bowler was again Yung with total of 519 pins over the 3 games. He suggested before the start that we could have a prize for best gross score . Voted out, bad luck mate.

There were some really good individual net game scores :
Surachot 233
Nongruk 235
Aoi 235
Ken 236
Tom 238
And the best for the money,
Mon 259 and
Martin 265

Martin also had the best total net score over 3 games of 697. And somehow has only dropped handicap from 80 to 63.

Team money winners were :
Anita, Sai Tong, Dao and Brock with 213.4
Second place : Dan E, Jimmy, Yung and Gordon L 207.8

Closely followed by
Phil, Colin, Ram and Mon 206.3
And Chris, Martin, Michael and Thomas 205.5

So only 8 pins in top 4 spots.
See you in 4 weeks, good bowling - Les

Bowling Wed 27 Feb

Power went off when we arrived this week, but there were still 39 people waiting to play when it came back on at 4pm starting time.

Couple of newcomers again this week, sorry in the power confusion I didn’t get to talk with them, - Dennis & Martin – I think Canadians.

Best performance this week was again Surachot, back in form, with gross total of 517 pins.

Best Net were :
‘H’ 227-225-247 ( 699 ) still grizzling about handicap
Anita 272-213-211 ( 696 ) got to get her handicap down some how
Ning 2 224-234-213 ( 671 ) just her 3rd try
Colin 202-211-213 ( 626 ) about time

Was a close contest today with Ram, Ning 2, Surachot & Ted winning by 1.3 pins with team ave of 210.3 from Anita, Jo, John R & Colin on 205.2
Phil W, H & Dan S, just missed out on the money with 205.2.

Anita had highest net game score prize with the 272.

Rex and Gary L are going to share the paperwork while I am away for 3 weeks from 12th March. So we all thank them.

Don’t forget Surachot’s party on Fri 29th Feb.

See you next week - Les

Bowling Wed 20 Feb

Wow 39 starters this week. We’ll need to get two venues shortly.

Michael and Susan brought along Susan’s sister and niece, Anita and Ettie visiting from Northampton U.K. John Vidler, Aussie, who has been around Chiang Mai for a while now, came along for his first try and did pretty well. Hope you all enjoyed.

Well the star of the day was certainly JO, she bowled 3 handicap games of 258 – 263 – 260. Total net for the day 535 pins. Well done Jo. Len also had a very good day with 512 pins. But no one was going to take the high game score prize off Jo, who has slashed 21 off her handicap as a result.

However Jo’s effort didn’t stop the winners, Mol, Susan,Keith and Ted with team average of 217.33. Second place Erik, Mr B, David and Tom on 208.6.

Yours truly is off on his Philippine philandering on 8th March and will miss 3 weeks bowling. We will need a volunteer to fill in, so if someone would like to have a go, see me next week.

Good bowling - Les

Wed 13 Feb 08

A few visitors this week: John Passingham from Leicestershire UK; Richard Japs from Home Desert California but now retired in Chiang Mai; Peter Roberts on holiday from Vancouver and Doug and Jan from Victoria B.C. who are staying with Ted (that’s a holiday ?? ). Plus a first game for Ning.

Had 32 starters again this week which worked out well.

Yung got back into form and was the only bowler to exceed 500 pins with 517.

Winners with a couple of visitors were Doug, John P, Michael and Rex on 2493.

Second place prize money went to Colin, Yung, Scott and Ning with 2436.

Best net game score was Dow in the last with 268. Unfortunately no prize money this week.

Okay – see you all next week - Les

Wed 6 Feb 2008

With Les away it was left to Gary L to run the bowling and he did a brilliant job even managing to get us away early. This is his report on the days events

Last Wednesday saw another big turnout with 32 bowlers competing for the prize money, and the competition was hot. After the first game Mr B thought he might have the high score wrapped up with a 248. However, Rex got his big golf ball rolling in the third game and powered his way to a high game score of 268.

There was a tight race for the best team average with the team of Somsee, Len, Erik, Dan, and Michael neck and neck with the team of Rex, Gordon L., Garry W. and Ning. For the the first two games it was a virtual tie but Rex's big high game in the third pushed the team to a 215.8 average and won the day.

Bowling Wed 30 Jan 08

Odd number of 31 this week. So it was 7 x 4 and 1 x 3.

Best gross bowlers were: YUNG 479
JOHN. R. 476
and RAM 465. Well done.
So, no real outstanding performances.

Welcome for first time with us to Anita from Kansas in good old USA who I understand is now living with her Daughter and Son-in-Law here in Chiang Mai. I’m sure Anita won’t mind if we add she is 89 years young and will be 90 in April. She has dropped her bowling ball weight from 14lbs to 12lbs because she says she is getting older. Anita bowls a great curve bowl and had a strike in her second frame in Chiang Mai. A great lady.

Winners today got lucky in the draw with two in form bowlers Dow and John R teaming up with two high handicappers, Ning and Aor. Thet all played above theit handicap ratings and ended with a team net average of 215.3.
Second place, 17.5 pins behind were Michael, Jo, Nungruk and Susan.

We didn’t have enough baht for high game score this week, but would have gone to Aor with a net 241 to help her team to victory.

Be back next week - Les

Wed 23 Jan 08

Some new bowlers again this week. Welcome to John K from Canada and Christian (one of our golfers) from Sweden. Phil Williams was back again from Wales with his niece Cheryl.

Big numbers again playing 7 teams of 4 and 2 teams of 5.

Ram had the best overall performance with 493 pins.

It was a close contest this week with only 8 pins separating 7 teams at the end of the three games.

Winners helped along by Ram’s best gross score were Ning, Ram, Ken and Jim by the margin of 1 pin from Graham, Garry W, John R, Ted and Gary L.
Best net score was David’s 293 in the last game.

OK – see you all next Wed - Les

Bowling Wed 16 Jan

Michael and Susan brought a friend and new bowler along this week and we hope she will come back.

Played 5 teams of 5 again.

Som See had an outstanding day, won high net score with 296 ( almost perfect game ) and bowled down a gross 514 pins (net 760) over 3 games. Well done Som, your handicap has been reduced from 82 to 62.

With Som See leading the way it was fairly easy for the rest of team, Mol, Len, Surachot and Lucky Yung to share the money. Total team net score 3134.
Second place to Jo, Dow, Jim, Rex and Colin 77 pins behind after being 37 pins in front at the last turn.
Shortest odds in the betting before the game, Ram, Aoi, Scotty, Gary L, and Les ran last, 219 pins behind.

Should have Gary W, JJ, and Phil Williams back next week and maybe Phil’s niece who is over here for 3 weeks.

OK – see you then - Les

Bowling Wed 9 Jan 08

8 teams of 4 this week. A good number to work with. 1st and 2nd prizes, B 800 & B 400, but no high score prize.

Once again Yung was the only one to break 500 pins with 519 and is now on 25 handicap.

Easy winners this week were Tom, Oi , (again) Keith and Yung on 2490 followed by David, Ken, Colin and Len in second spot with 2458.

Welcome to first timers Mr B. and Nang. Was also good to see Phil Hopper back on flying visit from UK for a week.

Top net game score if we have had one would have gone to Len with 256.

There should have been some photos on site this week but our intrepid cameraman Ted forgot to put the battery in his camera. Maybe next week.

See you all next Wed - Les

Bowling Wed 2 Jan 08

Back to mostly our regulars again this week after departure of Xmas visitors.

Welcome to Gordon Langtry and Ning, also Graham Best. Both of these fellows are known to the golfers. We hope you will be back.

Played 6 teams of 5 for a change.

Best bowler on the day was again Yung with 510 points and has had his handicap cut to 29 as a consequence.

Best team were Tom, Nongruk, Davis, Michael and Scott who were never headed and had a total handicap score of 3209 and comfortable winners.

High net score for the day went to newcomer Gordon with 259 in his last game which has pulled him down to a handicap of 58 as a new bowler.

Don’t forget to finish your practice games by 3.45 pm so we can be organized to start by 4.00 pm.

See you next Wed - Les