Meadows Open 2006
1-2 July 2006, Meadows
The 2006 Meadows Open was a six round Swiss. Manager Fergus decided we should draw for first round opponents with the numbers meant for delineating bowls' ends and play began, all in the blue unclouded weather.
The lawns were well watered so playing easily. No real excuses then for games going to time, or for the lack of TPs. There were plenty of failed TPs though, including one from Martin against Duncan when he took off from after hoop 5 to behind the peelee (just through 4-b) and rushed it back into the jaws, doing only one more peel before breaking down at penult, and one from Rod where he ended up trying to leave his partner ball in the jaws of penult and instead sent it almost to the peg. Rod later trumped these failed TPs with a failed sextuple, again with two peels done. In the main results went with the form book.