Short Mat Bowls Competitions

Short mat bowls is an indoor sport in which players attempt to score points by rolling a heavy ball along a fairly flat surface to gain as many shots as possible by getting their bowls nearer to the jack than their opponents and so outscore them.

Short mat bowls competitions.

Short mat players tour provide world class short mat bowls competitions open to any standard of bowler. Short mat bowls is a sport which is played by people of all ages and abilities. With 4 competitions to choose from. The county also enters a team in the esmba inter county championship competitions.

The esmba open competitions are open to entry from any esmba registered member. Whilst the game is heavily played throughout the united kingdom it is also played throughout europe and also places such as india australia new zealand and japan. Short mat bowls is a generally indoor based bowls sport played on a carpet. 2019 20 winners are offered a place representing england at the world championships in belgium in march 2020.

All competitions are open to any of the county s esmba registered players. Open competitions will be available to any registered bowlers of any county through any clubs. Each year we organise a programme of county championships and national championship qualifying competitions. Surrey county shortmat bowling association is the home of shortmat bowling in surrey.

National and international level events are generally held for all disciplines including singles pairs triples and fours.