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All outdoor bowling greens are top dressed with some sort of material and this may be 9
done on glass/sharps sand. which is very abrasive. Greens not done with such a abrasive
mix obviously produce less wear.
If you play outdoors for 3 days a week, as opposed to someone who plays 1 day a week,
your bowls are going to wear 3 times quicker. If you play an average of 25 ends at a distance of
approx. 90 feet (27.5 metres), that equals 2,250 feet (686 metres) per game. If you play 2 games
per day, 3 days a week, that’s a total of 13,000 feet or around 2.5 miles or 4 kilometres.
Playing positions can also affect the rate of wear. The skip is more prone to drive, sending
the bowl as fast as possible down the green from a stationary position. The bowl must spin on the
green to reach its maximum velocity, compared to playing a lead position where one is rolling the
bowl out of the hand relatively slowly.
If the bowls are not alternated between games, the uneven wear can lead to a miss matched
set of bowls. The difference may well be very marginal and in short mat bowls we dismissed this
effect even though we realised that some people use their bowls both inside and out. If you would
like to see a video on bowls testing try http://www.bowlsdirect.co.nz and look for the tech issues
etc. Also check out the rest of the site.

From the 1935
From the 1935
Taylor-Rolph catalogue
Taylor-Rolph catalogue

BOWLS TESTERS

UNITED KINGDOM
A THOMAS TAYLOR (BOWLS) LTD, GLASGOW
C GEORGE MACKAY, EDINBURGH
K HENSELITE (UK) LTD, CUMBERNAULD
P PERSHORE BOWLS CENTRE, WORCESTERSHIRE
X DRAKES PRIDE, LIVERPOOL
AUSTRALIA
G "THE BOWLS DOCTOR", BARRY COX, AUSTRALIA
L Taylor Bowls Australia, AUSTRALIA
N HENSELITE (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTD, AUSTRALIA
Q SYDNEY BOWLS CENTRE, AUSTRALIA
R FRED FERN'S BOWLS CENTRE PTY LTD, AUSTRALIA
S DRAKES PRIDE (VICTORIA), AUSTRALIA
V GREENMASTER BOWLS (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTD, AUSTRALIA
Z AEROBOWLS PTY LTD. AUSTRALIA.