Aberdeen Tournament 2014
13-14 September, Albury and Westburn
David Houston won the Aberdeen handicap tournament, beating Alasdair Adam 9-5 in the final. The tournament was played on the bowling greens of Albury Sports Centre and the Westburn Bowling Club with four blocks, the winners of each going into the semi-finals and then a final. In order to fit the tournament into the weekend all games were 18 point games with time limits of 1 hour and 50 minutes, with the exception of Block 3 where there were only four players and so the games were 26 point with three hour time limits.
On the Saturday night the players were treated to a grand civic reception by the Lord Provost in the Bruce room in Aberdeen Town House and then a magnificent dinner in the Royal Northern and University Club. On Sunday morning with the last round still to be played the blocks were still not decided. However the eventual winners were David Houston, James Hopgood, Alasdair Adam and Jim Wilson. In the Albury semi-final David beat James +18 with bisques standing, while at Westburn there was a much closer battle between Alasdair Adam and Jim Wilson with Alasdair eventually coming out on top 13-9.