An organised social bowls competition is conducted on Wednesday mornings; 10:00am to 12 noon.

Entries/Bookings ARE ESSENTIAL and must be in by Tuesday night, contact the Secretary on 0400 102 503.

Friday “Twilight” Bowls

We have just introduced (4th April ’25) Friday “Twilight” bowls. All Members are welcome. Cost is $5 ph, and all entry monies are “pooled” and prizemony paid out. Entries close at 5:00pm on the Thursday night (please use the relevant sheet at the noticeboard), money payable by 5:15pm on the Friday night with games to commence at 5:30pm. Format (at this stage) are 2-games of 10-end pairs followed by “nibbles”. 

Sunday Men’s Jackpot Bowls

An organised bowls competition is conducted on Sunday mornings between 10:00am and 12 noon.

Entries/Bookings ARE ESSENTIAL and must be in by Saturday night, contact the Secretary on 0400 102 503.

Pennant Bowls

We currently play Pennant bowls in the Ovens & Murray Bowling Association, which is affiliated with Bowls Victoria; the 2024/25 season commenced in mid-October 2024.

History:

The North Albury Bowling Club (and Albury – it’s former name until 2007) has been an active and successful participant in district pennant dating back to 1922. And in fact between 1946 and 1984, the Club was involved concurrently in three Bowling Association’s Pennant Competitions.

The Club’s involvement in pennant first began in October 1922 with the forming of the Ovens and Murray Bowling Association. A pennant competition was immediately commenced, with Albury winning the inaugural year and subsequent next four years. (For a full list of the Club’s successes in O&M see the “Achievements” section of the website in “About Us”). At the end of the 1983/84 season, Albury left the O&M and remained solely associated with NSW through the Albury and District Bowling Association (A&DBA).

In 1946 the Club also became associated with two other bowls associations formed in the district; the A&DBA and the Border Bowling Association (BBA). The Club enjoyed considerable success in the BBA – see the “Achievements” section of the website in “About Us”. The Club left the BBA at the end of the 1985/86 season, and that Association ‘folded’ in 1990.

The A&DBA was one of six ‘districts’ created in Zone 8 of Bowls NSW (there are 16 zones across NSW). Up until, and including the 2021 pennant season, clubs played pennant in their respective district in various grades with the top two teams in each grade at the completion of the season playing off to represent their ‘district’ at the Zone playoffs. Winning Zone resulted in the winner progressing to State. The Club has enjoyed considerable success at District and moderate success at Zone – see the “Achievements” section of the website in “About Us”.

With the onset of ‘unification’ in NSW (the merging of the Men (Bowls NSW) and the Women (WBNSW)) in early-2022 there was no pennant played in NSW. As a consequence, the A&DBA recognised the need to have some form of organised bowls,  and proposed an interim competition – the Border Club Challenge (BCC). This was similar to pennant and consisted of 5 Divisions; NABC entered a team in each Division, with two being entered in Division 4. Some of the clubs, including NABC, included Ladies in their teams. At the conclusion of the season, NABC won Division 1, the two NABC teams played off for Division 4, and the Division 5 team went down to Walla Walla. For details of the BCC season refer to the “News” section of the website in the “Hopper Happenings” section.

Post NSW Unification:

With ‘unification’ implemented at state-level and ‘districts’ eliminated, the administration and management reverted to each respective Zone and its appointed ‘Match Committee’. The new ‘Match Committee’ for Zone 8 adapted the former pennant competition format slightly, replacing districts with sections. This resulted in the NABC playing in Group A – Albury Sectional, which had been slightly increased with participating clubs. The pennant competition was played (commenced 14 January 2023), however, there were no finals in each Grade with the exception of Grades 6 and 7, due to the number of clubs that participated. In Grades 3, 4 and 5, the team on top after completion of competition proceeded directly to Zone to play off for representative rights of Zone at State. In Grades 6 and 7, there was a playoff between the top two teams in each of the Sections, to determine who progressed to the Zone playoffs. For a ‘wrap-up’ of the 2022/23 Pennant season see the “News” section of the website in “Hopper Happenings”.

The 2023/24 season, which commenced on 13th January 2024, followed the same format as the previous year.  The NABC entered Teams in Grades 4, 5, 6 and 7. Again, due to the number of clubs participating, Grade 7 had two sections with the two section winners with the highest points after ‘sectional play’ playing each other to determine the right to qualify for Zone playoffs.

Following the completion of the 2023/24 season, Members voted to dis-affiliate with Bowls NSW and re-join Bowls Victoria (where the Club originally started playing pennant); this was accepted and resulted in the NABC becoming part of the Ovens & Murray Bowling Association (again). This season (2024/25), the O&M has 30 clubs and they play a ‘weekend’ and a ‘midweek’ pennant competition. The ‘weekend’ competition has five ‘A’ Division pools (A1-A5) and four ‘B’ Division pools (B1-B4). The ‘midweek’ competition has three ‘A’ Division pools (A1-A3) and three ‘B’ Division pools (B1-B3). The NABC has entered three teams in the ‘weekend’ competition (A4, B3 and B4) whilst we entered one team in the ‘midweek’ competition (B3). For a ‘wrap-up’ of the “Hoppers” first season back in the O&M see the “News” section of the website in “Hopper Happenings”.

Barefoot Bowls

(Updated: 5th February 2025)

At North Albury we can cater to organisation’s social clubs or groups* to provide a social event by way of ‘Barefoot Bowls’ – download the “flyer” for more information.

*Please note that because of Health and Safety considerations, children under 12 years of age are not permitted on the bowling greens at any time.

Bookings for this coming bowls’ season (start of October 2023 to end of March 2024) are now open!

For more information contact the Secretary on 0400 102 503 or download and complete the “Booking Form“.