Carpet Bowls – Rule Change – decision
A delegate’s meeting at Bickford Smith earlier today, voted in the following rule change, effective immediately. This supersedes the proposed rule change in the previous addendum, published below.
The mat will be placed on the floor up to the carpet. Disability stick users do not have to have one foot on the mat to bowl and may stand to the rear of it, but have to keep within the width of the mat. For those using a disability stick the bowl must be placed on the carpet no more than 3″ from the edge of the mat. For all bowlers, including disability sticks, the bowl must have left the hand/disability stick before the start of the vertical jack line that is a distance of 3′ from the edge of the carpet.
Who determines what constitutes 3″?
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Further to the earlier rule change and reversion, as shown below, an addendum has been issued, putting forward proposals regarding the positioning of the mat and the point of release, as follows:
- The bowling mat will be placed just off the edge of the carpet.
- There shall be a delivery line across the mat, at a distance of 18″ from the end of the carpet. This marks the point where the wood MUST have left the hand or disability aid.
These have not yet been ratified. This is for information only at this stage.
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From Monday, 6th November 2023 the new rules that were introduced at the start of this season have reverted back to the original rules.
The exception is the 2 points rule which stays as +2 for your opponents if you knock the jack off.