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Central Avenue, Whitehills, Northampton NN2 8DZ

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Welcome to Indoor Bowling

Our Indoor Green

Kingsthorpe Bowling Club are a friendly club with excellent Indoor facilities and are always looking for new bowlers to continue the success of the club.

There are 6 Indoor bowling rinks, all having an excellent playing surface and LED overhead lighting allowing the club to provide bowls events at the highest level. As you can imagine, we are extremely proud of our facilities which have been designed specifically for your bowling pleasure.

The club offers indoor bowls league matches for Men, Ladies and Mixed Teams, seven days a week covering all formats of play, Singles, Pairs, Aussie Pairs, Triples, Fours, and Drawn Competitions. You will also have the opportunity to play in Club matches plus County and National competitions.

Social bowling events are run on a regular basis for players of all abilities and are a great way to improve your bowling and make new friends.

We offer a variety of “Non-match” times when you can use the green to improve your skills. If you have a big enough group, you may be able to hire the whole indoor green on an exclusive basis.

The club operates a rink booking service via the new BOWLR software which can be accessed via the website link, your computer or mobile phone app.
Bowlr gives members access to rink booking, current league and competition fixtures along with basic membership contact details to facilitate match arrangement.

Whether you have been bowling all of your life or are new to the sport, we hope that you will enjoy your time with us.

One of our lady members delivering a bowl in a match at Kingsthorpe Indoor Bowling Club
Our youngest junior member receiving some coaching tips from granddad at Kingsthorpe indoor bowling club

Coaching

The club has three Level 1 qualified coaches, a Bowls England and Nationally Recognised Qualification. For people who are new to bowls, or have never even tried it before, we offer a free taster session which can be followed up with four two-hour, coaching sessions. You only pay our standard rink fee for each of these sessions as the coaches give their time for free.

In addition to the new bowler sessions, our coaches can offer “Technique Coaching” for anyone who would like their stance or delivery checking or just a general refresh of their game.

If you’d like more information please complete the contact form and select “Coaching” from the Type of Enquiry dropdown and one of our coaches will get back to you.

One of the coaches at Kingsthorpe Bowling Club showing how to measure correctly during an indoor bowling coaching session. All coaching is provided to beginners free of charge

Winter Indoor Leagues & Competitions

As the number of indoor players increases due to the end of the outdoor season, a full programme of winter league matches, Inter-Club matches and competitions returns. Men’s and mixed matches are generally played on Thursdays and Saturdays with ladies’ matches being played on Wednesdays and occasionally Mondays.

 A full list of the winter leagues, fixtures and up-to-date league positions can be found by visiting BOWLR using the link below”

Friday 7-7-1 Triples League

The popular outdoor 7-7-3 league format will enter its third year indoors for the 2024-25 season but with a revised format and now being known as the 7-7-1 league.

To remove the need for dual sessions on a Friday evening the new format sees teams of five members rotating to play 3-woods in triples format.  In the event of ties after the two sets a single, sudden-death, end will be played to determine the winner.

All the team info and current standings are detailed below but the fixtures and individual weekly results will be held on our Bowlr system.

The draw will be made at the start of the 2024-25 indoor season in October.

Click on the button below to access up-to-date information when it is available. You do not need to log into Bowlr.

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Friday 7-7-1 Latest Table

Indoor Friday 7-7-1 Captain and Teams

TEAM No.TEAM & CAPTAINPLAYERS
1A Tom WellburnBob Brown, Ray Lett, Lynda Tarry, Steve Jones
2B Roger TansleyDuncan Marriott, Jonathan Fish, Sam Manton, Roger Caswell
3C Hilary SharpeCelia Morris, Trish Bowles, Lee Freeman, Janice Finlayson
4D Debbie WatkinsDave Sargeant, Ray Ball, Maureen Hanwell, Sandra Adcock
5E Mark CourtneyNigel Hanwell, Brian Winney, Bill O'Neill, Ed O'Farrell
6F Sharon TansleyDenis Hardy, Hugh Edmonds, Dave Denton, Mick Taylor
7G Pete MorrisDawn Rolfe, Angela Brown, Angela Fitchett, Alan Power
8H Darren LewisNicky Hardy, Tony Popple, Mac Sibley, John Adcock
9I Geoff HayterMark Clements, Carmel Shortland, Jeanne Alexander, Steve Bowles
10J Tim DawkinsMatt Desmond, John Millis, Amy Ansell, Sue Davies
11K Mick SharpeTina White, Brian Davies, Jane Coetzee, Jackie Millis
12L Andrew MantonPete Wellburn, Jenny Tennent, Sandra Aldridge, Steve Hardy

Indoor Friday 7-7-3 Scoring

Two points will be awarded for a match win and nil points for a match loss.
League winners will be determined as follows:

  1. The highest number of match points scored.
  2. If match points are equal, the team with the highest number of sets won will be the winner.
  3. If match points and sets won are equal the team with the highest net total of set points will be the winner.
  4. If match points, set points won and the net total of set points are equal then the team with the highest shots difference will be the winner.
  5. If match points, sets won, the net total of sets points and shot difference are equal then a playoff will decide the winner.

Winter Inter-Club Fixtures

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Saturday Inter-League

The popular Saturday Inter-League now boasts a main sponsor, has expanded into two divisions, and features a dedicated page. To view the final standings for the 2023-24 season and learn more about this sponsored league, visit the dedicated inter-league page.

Winter Club Competitions

As winter settles in, we run a series of Club Competitions. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a novice, this is your chance to participate in a series of indoor competitions that allow you to enter with bowlers you know or to enter the drawn competitions that could see you play with the best bowlers in the club.

The 2024-25 competition entry form and rules can be viewed, downloaded and printed from the following links which will be added during October 2024

View Competition Draws on BOWLR

Once all entries have been submitted the Indoor Competition Secretary will use Bowlr to make the draw and then log all the results as each round is played. You can view entries and follow each competition as the rounds progress using the link below.

Summer

Summer Indoor Leagues & Competitions

During the summer months, May – Sept, many of our bowlers play outdoors, either at Kingsthorpe or one of the many other clubs around the county. During these months a reduced program of Indoor bowling leagues and events are run. A full list of the summer leagues, fixtures and up-to-date league positions can be found by visiting BOWLR using the links below.

2024 Summer Indoor Programme

A full program of Summer Indoor leagues and competitions can now be found on Bowlr. You will need to log in to Indoor Bowlr and select “Club Info” on the top menu. Here you will find details of all the summer leagues and competitions, entry forms, and contact details of persons responsible for running these events.

2024 Thursday Indoor Summer Cup

Summer Cup PArticipating Clubs

During the summer months an inter-club competition is held between three local clubs, Kingsthorpe, Daventry and Northampton & District Indoor Bowls. 

Having won the cup in 2022 Kingsthorpe were looking forward to defending their trophy in 2023. Unfortunately this was not to be as Northampton & District fielded very strong sides throughout the season and won the cup convincingly. Daventry were runners-up with KBC in last position despite three out of four wins in their final games.

So we go again in 2024 and here’s to a more successful season for KBC.

The match fee is £8 which includes rink fees, raffle,  tea and cake.   The matches will be Triples, 18 ends with the raffle, tea and cakes at the end.

As always these days are great fun and give our newer bowlers and die-hard indoor bowlers a chance to experience inter-club matches.

Congratulations to all concerned from the respective clubs for your organisation and commitment to this Summer Cup.

Long may it continue.

 

Indoor Summer Cup 2024 - Fixtures

DATETEAMSCORESCORETEAM
25.04.24
02.05.24DAVENTRY14V4KINGSTHORPE
09.05.24KINGSTHORPE4V14NORTHAMPTON
16.05.24NORTHAMPTON16V2
DAVENTRY
23.05.24NORTHAMPTON18V0KINGSTHORPE
30.05.24DAVENTRY13V5KINGSTHORPE
06.06.24DAVENTRY4V14NORTHAMPTON
13.06.24KINGSTHORPE14V4DAVENTRY
20.06.24NORTHAMPTON6V12KINGSTHORPE
27.06.24DAVENTRY14V4NORTHAMPTON
04.07.24KINGSTHORPE2V16NORTHAMPTON
11.07.24KINGSTHORPE2V16DAVENTRY
18.07.24NORTHAMPTON16V2DAVENTRY
25.07.24
01.08.24
08.08.24
15.08.24DAVENTRY12V6KINGSTHORPE
22.08.24KINGSTHORPE14V4NORTHAMPTON
29.08.24NORTHAMPTON14V4DAVENTRY
05.09.24NORTHAMPTON16V2KINGSTHORPE
12.09.24KINGSTHORPE16V2DAVENTRY
19.09.24DAVENTRY14V4NORTHAMPTON
POINTS SCORE COMPILED
NORTHAMPTON142
DAVENTRY101
KINGSTHORPE81

Indoor Honours Board

View Historic data for all Indoor Competitions since the Indoor Green opened on the 31st October, 1990

NEW INDOOR SEASON STARTED

THE Indoor Season startED October 1st New Rink Fee £3.50 per Session

New Year's Eve

7:30 'til Late

Tickets from Chef Martin, the Bar or Social Committe