All About Lawn Bowls

Lawn bowls (sometimes known as just bowls) is a precision sport played on grass, where the aim is to roll bowls closer to a small white ball (the "jack") than your opponent. The sport is related to bocce and pétanque.

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The bowls used are slightly radially asymmetrical balls to enable them to follow a curved path.

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