3rd October Sorry! But I am unable to provide more results from the Indoor Championships as the BBC Sport Site does not hold the info any more. 30th September Sandy Wotherspoon lost out in the prelim round of The Scottish Indoor Championships, Sandy unfortunatley went down by 21 shots to 16 against the current holder, D Burnett of Arbroath. I will add more results from this Championship tomorrow. 26th September Three Finals were played today at Gourock Park.John Hagen defeated Sammy Doak by 21 shots to 6 to win the Non-Prizewinners Trophy. The Fyfe Nominated Triples Final was won by Gary Bradley,Andy Kearns & Archie Forbes,who defeated Joda Reid,Terry Duffy & John Kane by 17 shots to 12. The other Final was the Young Rose Bowl Pairs in which Robert Grant and Barry McClafferty were up against George Twaddle and J O'Brian. When I left there was'nt much in the game and i will bring you the final score tomorrow. Was delighted to receive my first ever Award for Web Design this week when I was given a "Golden Web Award" from The International Association of Web Masters & Designers Fancy some Winter Bowling? Yes? Well i have received an e-mail from a Couple who own a 2 Bedroom Apartment in Marbella in Spain.Its a 5 minute walk from the local Bowling Club and they wish to rent it out to Bowlers! Interested? Click here to send for more details 24th September Unfortunately the Server that holds Gourock Park's Domain name was down on late Saturday til around 4pm today. This meant that the site was unavailable using www.Gourockpark.co.uk address in your browser . Hopefully the problems will not occur again and please accept my apologies for the break in service. Joda Reid,Terry Duffy and John Kane won the Inverclyde Social Clubs Triples Championship at Rankin Park on Saturday 22nd September. 21st September Gourock Park Member John Greenhill,husband of the Ladie President Jean passed away peacefully at Inverclyde Royal Hospital on 19th September. John was a respected member for many years and will be sorely missed by his many friends. My sincere condolences to Jean and all John's Family. Jim Crawford won the 2 Bowl Singles tonight defeating Terry Duffy by 21 shots to 4. 19th September Several Finals have been played this week at Gourock Park.They are as follows- The remaining Competitions will be completed over the next week. 17th September The Yorkshire Building Society have withdrawn thier sponsorship of The Annual Gourock verus Gourock Park, which was played on Saturday 15th. A Report and some pictures will be placed on the site soon. Robert Grant along with Pat & Robert Hughes won The Hawkshill Open Triples at Largs on 16th September. 12th September Dougie Twaddle & Betty Mc Intyre won The Willam Spence Mixed Pairs Trophy defeating Tommy Docherty & Nan Hawthorn. The Final was played on Monday 10th. 11th September 2001 I have placed these pictures here to show my support to The American Nation and its people who have never been slow to stand by us. God Bless America 10th September Joda Reid,John Kane,Jim Crawford and Robert Grant won the Grosvenor Bowling Clubs Top Team Competition which was played on Sunday the 10th of September Yorkshire Trophy The Selection Committee have picked the Rinks to play in this years Yorkshire Trophy at Gourock on Sat 15th of September. Please tick your name off if available for this game. 1st September With just a few weeks to the end of another season of Bowling, I wish to thank everyone who has helped to make this site a success,special thanks to John Freeburn & Willie Quigley for supplying all the info from the G&D League and Cup competitions, SBA District Secretary, Bill Knox, Graham Paterick (Lady Alice results) , my Dad, Jimmy Bradley (IBM results), Norma Ramsay for info and photos from Gourock Park Ladies, Robert Grant, for keeping us all amused throughout the season("Hello there" ) to Brian McAlees who recently told me " I spend hours in your site" thanks Brian,now go and get some work done!!! Crawfurd Car Centre and Jim McDonald for sponsoring the site and lastly I wish to thank The Committee at Gourock Park for all their help and support throughout the season. This Site had 970 visitors in August,the highest ever. From October I have decided to "take a rest" and only do limited work within the site, Only the "News" and "Fun Pages" will be updated between October and January. I will then start to prepare the site for next Season and I would be glad if you have any suggestions of any content you would like to see on the site. I already have plans to improve some areas of the site, the "Bowling" and "Local" Links pages will be redesigned and I hope that I will be able to add some more Championship Results from other Clubs A Fantasy Wapinshaw will be run next Season featuring players from Gourock Park . Details of how it works and how to enter will be placed on the site as soon as we finalise the players involved and the scoring system There is still a lot happening at Gourock Park,only 2 competitions have reached their conclusions. The rest are now being rapidly completed before we run out of Summer weather (What Summer weather???) The Wm Spence Mixed Pairs takes place this Saturday and the following Saturday we have The Annual Yorkshire Trophy against our local rivals Gourock Bowling Club which this year will be played at Barrhill Road. . 23rd August Unfortunately The IBM Friendly was once again rained off, on Tues of this week. The Presidents Final will take place on Tues 28th August at 6pm. Jim Crawford versus Rodger Lynn. 18th August Greenock & District Championship Results Singles - John Hampsey IBM 21 Jim Twaddle Gourock 20 Junior Singles Paul Craig IBM 21 Brian Gorry Grosvenor 15 Pairs -Kilmacolm 21 IBM 12 Triples-Ardgowan 16 Grosvenor 13 Fours-Grosvenor 12 Gourock Park 11 Senior Fours-Kilmacolm 14 Port Glasgow 11 A Full report and pictures will be added to the site as soon as possible. The Report from The SBA Finals at Ayr will also be added asap. My apologies for the delay. 16th August The Greenock & District "Top Ten" has been won by Wellington Park,they defeated Grosvenor in The Final by 8 points to 0. The Wellington Club Championship was won by Stephen McLelland, who must be the youngest player ever to win a Club Championship within the G & D area. Stephen is just 14 years old and he defeated John O'Neil. The IBM Friendly.due to be played on tues 14th aug was rained off and will now be played next tues. 13th August The Greenock & District Championships got underway on Saturday 11th,only the "fours" from Gourock Park have made it through to next saturday's Semi-finals. I hopefully will make it along to the Final on Saturday to photograph all the Winners A report from the recent SBA Finals at Ayr will be added to the site soon, in the meantime,congratulations to Andy Gilmour of Upper Cowal who was Runner-up in the Junior Singles The Final of Gourock Park's Championship will be played on Thursday 16th August @ 6.30pm. Defending Champion,Dougie Twaddle plays Jim Crawford who is by far Gourock Park's most consistent player this Season.It should be a great game to watch 6th August Last Saturday,the 4th of august,the Greenock and District B.A. ran a "Round Robin" competition for some of the young Bowlers in the district.In all twelve took part and they were split into two groups of six.Each Player had five games to contend with and the winners of each section played off in a Final to decide a Champion. It has to be said that the standard of bowling was suberb and some of these young bowlers are going to be challenging for honours in their respective Clubs very soon. Four Clubs were represented on the day,but I am sure this will increase when word gets around. Birkmyre were represented by Brian Keenan, Port Glasgow had Kevin Watson and Stephen Hendry. Rankin Park had Paul McElwee, Jaclyn Johnstone and Laura McNicol and Grosvenor had Colin McEachnie,Graeme Stewart, John Pollock, Peter Wilson, Ryan McGhee and David Hyslop. All these players were very sporting and appreciative of their opponents skill ( most of the time) and showed maturity well beyond their years. The Final was played between John Pollock and Stephen Hendry,which John won and was a delight to watch. After play had ceased,Mc Donalds meals were given to the players and Junior Vice-President Jim McEwan presented all of the competitors with a voucher and G&D badges. Jim in his speech thanked Grosvenor BC for the use of their facilties, the players for making the day a success and the parents/guardians for ensuring that the young bowlers arrived and departed safely.He also thanked the parents/officials who had given up their time to arrange the tournament and mark the ties. It would appear that all the players enjoyed the morning and that the spectators thoroughly enjoyed what they were watching. A Trophy and sponsorship has yet to be secured for this tournament,but iI feel this will not be a problem. Clubs in the area should be aware that youngsters are out there.and they are interested in Bowling.So please look a bit harder. Submitted by John Freeburn Unable to update "The Quiz" this week! There are problems with the servers that the quiz is held on, hopefully it wont be too long til its sorted. The Gourock Park Championship Singles Final will take place on Thurs 16th at 6.30 PM Jim Crawford versus Dougie Twaddle August 2nd Dougie Twaddle lost today playing in the Scottish Singles Championship.. I will try to get the results from the other local players as soon as possible and place them here. Gourock Park members should take note that the date of the Yorkshire Friendly has been moved to the 15th September @ Gourock. Dates have also been set for the following games----14th August IBM Friendly @ IBM, 16th August Ladies Charity game, 1st September Floodnight game/fun night, 8th September William Spence mixed Pairs. HOW IS YOUR CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP DEVELOPING? WHO HAS REACHED THE FINAL? WHO WON IT? Send the details to me and I wll place the news on this site! Contact me on 07949 683 164 or mail to Gary@Gourockpark.co.uk I am also interested in any other results,news etc you could supply me with? Presidents Singles,funny stories Talking of funny stories just reminded me that Past President Dougie Brown over heard the following statement from Willie Thompson of Fort Matilda during our recent league game. He allegedly said "its one doon to us" when his Skip asked the outcome of the current end. :>) Congratulations to Victoria on winning Division 2 and also to Lady Alice/Inverkip on securing promotion to Division 1 and for winning the Reid Cup recently. 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3rd October Sorry! But I am unable to provide more results from the Indoor Championships as the BBC Sport Site does not hold the info any more. 30th September Sandy Wotherspoon lost out in the prelim round of The Scottish Indoor Championships, Sandy unfortunatley went down by 21 shots to 16 against the current holder, D Burnett of Arbroath. I will add more results from this Championship tomorrow. 26th September Three Finals were played today at Gourock Park.John Hagen defeated Sammy Doak by 21 shots to 6 to win the Non-Prizewinners Trophy. The Fyfe Nominated Triples Final was won by Gary Bradley,Andy Kearns & Archie Forbes,who defeated Joda Reid,Terry Duffy & John Kane by 17 shots to 12. The other Final was the Young Rose Bowl Pairs in which Robert Grant and Barry McClafferty were up against George Twaddle and J O'Brian. When I left there was'nt much in the game and i will bring you the final score tomorrow. Was delighted to receive my first ever Award for Web Design this week when I was given a "Golden Web Award" from The International Association of Web Masters & Designers Fancy some Winter Bowling? Yes? Well i have received an e-mail from a Couple who own a 2 Bedroom Apartment in Marbella in Spain.Its a 5 minute walk from the local Bowling Club and they wish to rent it out to Bowlers! Interested? Click here to send for more details 24th September Unfortunately the Server that holds Gourock Park's Domain name was down on late Saturday til around 4pm today. This meant that the site was unavailable using www.Gourockpark.co.uk address in your browser . Hopefully the problems will not occur again and please accept my apologies for the break in service. Joda Reid,Terry Duffy and John Kane won the Inverclyde Social Clubs Triples Championship at Rankin Park on Saturday 22nd September. 21st September Gourock Park Member John Greenhill,husband of the Ladie President Jean passed away peacefully at Inverclyde Royal Hospital on 19th September. John was a respected member for many years and will be sorely missed by his many friends. My sincere condolences to Jean and all John's Family. Jim Crawford won the 2 Bowl Singles tonight defeating Terry Duffy by 21 shots to 4. 19th September Several Finals have been played this week at Gourock Park.They are as follows- The remaining Competitions will be completed over the next week. 17th September The Yorkshire Building Society have withdrawn thier sponsorship of The Annual Gourock verus Gourock Park, which was played on Saturday 15th. A Report and some pictures will be placed on the site soon. Robert Grant along with Pat & Robert Hughes won The Hawkshill Open Triples at Largs on 16th September. 12th September Dougie Twaddle & Betty Mc Intyre won The Willam Spence Mixed Pairs Trophy defeating Tommy Docherty & Nan Hawthorn. The Final was played on Monday 10th. 11th September 2001 I have placed these pictures here to show my support to The American Nation and its people who have never been slow to stand by us. God Bless America 10th September Joda Reid,John Kane,Jim Crawford and Robert Grant won the Grosvenor Bowling Clubs Top Team Competition which was played on Sunday the 10th of September Yorkshire Trophy The Selection Committee have picked the Rinks to play in this years Yorkshire Trophy at Gourock on Sat 15th of September. Please tick your name off if available for this game. 1st September With just a few weeks to the end of another season of Bowling, I wish to thank everyone who has helped to make this site a success,special thanks to John Freeburn & Willie Quigley for supplying all the info from the G&D League and Cup competitions, SBA District Secretary, Bill Knox, Graham Paterick (Lady Alice results) , my Dad, Jimmy Bradley (IBM results), Norma Ramsay for info and photos from Gourock Park Ladies, Robert Grant, for keeping us all amused throughout the season("Hello there" ) to Brian McAlees who recently told me " I spend hours in your site" thanks Brian,now go and get some work done!!! Crawfurd Car Centre and Jim McDonald for sponsoring the site and lastly I wish to thank The Committee at Gourock Park for all their help and support throughout the season. This Site had 970 visitors in August,the highest ever. From October I have decided to "take a rest" and only do limited work within the site, Only the "News" and "Fun Pages" will be updated between October and January. I will then start to prepare the site for next Season and I would be glad if you have any suggestions of any content you would like to see on the site. I already have plans to improve some areas of the site, the "Bowling" and "Local" Links pages will be redesigned and I hope that I will be able to add some more Championship Results from other Clubs A Fantasy Wapinshaw will be run next Season featuring players from Gourock Park . Details of how it works and how to enter will be placed on the site as soon as we finalise the players involved and the scoring system There is still a lot happening at Gourock Park,only 2 competitions have reached their conclusions. The rest are now being rapidly completed before we run out of Summer weather (What Summer weather???) The Wm Spence Mixed Pairs takes place this Saturday and the following Saturday we have The Annual Yorkshire Trophy against our local rivals Gourock Bowling Club which this year will be played at Barrhill Road. . 23rd August Unfortunately The IBM Friendly was once again rained off, on Tues of this week. The Presidents Final will take place on Tues 28th August at 6pm. Jim Crawford versus Rodger Lynn. 18th August Greenock & District Championship Results Singles - John Hampsey IBM 21 Jim Twaddle Gourock 20 Junior Singles Paul Craig IBM 21 Brian Gorry Grosvenor 15 Pairs -Kilmacolm 21 IBM 12 Triples-Ardgowan 16 Grosvenor 13 Fours-Grosvenor 12 Gourock Park 11 Senior Fours-Kilmacolm 14 Port Glasgow 11 A Full report and pictures will be added to the site as soon as possible. The Report from The SBA Finals at Ayr will also be added asap. My apologies for the delay. 16th August The Greenock & District "Top Ten" has been won by Wellington Park,they defeated Grosvenor in The Final by 8 points to 0. The Wellington Club Championship was won by Stephen McLelland, who must be the youngest player ever to win a Club Championship within the G & D area. Stephen is just 14 years old and he defeated John O'Neil. The IBM Friendly.due to be played on tues 14th aug was rained off and will now be played next tues. 13th August The Greenock & District Championships got underway on Saturday 11th,only the "fours" from Gourock Park have made it through to next saturday's Semi-finals. I hopefully will make it along to the Final on Saturday to photograph all the Winners A report from the recent SBA Finals at Ayr will be added to the site soon, in the meantime,congratulations to Andy Gilmour of Upper Cowal who was Runner-up in the Junior Singles The Final of Gourock Park's Championship will be played on Thursday 16th August @ 6.30pm. Defending Champion,Dougie Twaddle plays Jim Crawford who is by far Gourock Park's most consistent player this Season.It should be a great game to watch 6th August Last Saturday,the 4th of august,the Greenock and District B.A. ran a "Round Robin" competition for some of the young Bowlers in the district.In all twelve took part and they were split into two groups of six.Each Player had five games to contend with and the winners of each section played off in a Final to decide a Champion. It has to be said that the standard of bowling was suberb and some of these young bowlers are going to be challenging for honours in their respective Clubs very soon. Four Clubs were represented on the day,but I am sure this will increase when word gets around. Birkmyre were represented by Brian Keenan, Port Glasgow had Kevin Watson and Stephen Hendry. Rankin Park had Paul McElwee, Jaclyn Johnstone and Laura McNicol and Grosvenor had Colin McEachnie,Graeme Stewart, John Pollock, Peter Wilson, Ryan McGhee and David Hyslop. All these players were very sporting and appreciative of their opponents skill ( most of the time) and showed maturity well beyond their years. The Final was played between John Pollock and Stephen Hendry,which John won and was a delight to watch. After play had ceased,Mc Donalds meals were given to the players and Junior Vice-President Jim McEwan presented all of the competitors with a voucher and G&D badges. Jim in his speech thanked Grosvenor BC for the use of their facilties, the players for making the day a success and the parents/guardians for ensuring that the young bowlers arrived and departed safely.He also thanked the parents/officials who had given up their time to arrange the tournament and mark the ties. It would appear that all the players enjoyed the morning and that the spectators thoroughly enjoyed what they were watching. A Trophy and sponsorship has yet to be secured for this tournament,but iI feel this will not be a problem. Clubs in the area should be aware that youngsters are out there.and they are interested in Bowling.So please look a bit harder. Submitted by John Freeburn Unable to update "The Quiz" this week! There are problems with the servers that the quiz is held on, hopefully it wont be too long til its sorted. The Gourock Park Championship Singles Final will take place on Thurs 16th at 6.30 PM Jim Crawford versus Dougie Twaddle August 2nd Dougie Twaddle lost today playing in the Scottish Singles Championship.. I will try to get the results from the other local players as soon as possible and place them here. Gourock Park members should take note that the date of the Yorkshire Friendly has been moved to the 15th September @ Gourock. Dates have also been set for the following games----14th August IBM Friendly @ IBM, 16th August Ladies Charity game, 1st September Floodnight game/fun night, 8th September William Spence mixed Pairs. HOW IS YOUR CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP DEVELOPING? WHO HAS REACHED THE FINAL? WHO WON IT? Send the details to me and I wll place the news on this site! Contact me on 07949 683 164 or mail to Gary@Gourockpark.co.uk I am also interested in any other results,news etc you could supply me with? Presidents Singles,funny stories Talking of funny stories just reminded me that Past President Dougie Brown over heard the following statement from Willie Thompson of Fort Matilda during our recent league game. He allegedly said "its one doon to us" when his Skip asked the outcome of the current end. :>) Congratulations to Victoria on winning Division 2 and also to Lady Alice/Inverkip on securing promotion to Division 1 and for winning the Reid Cup recently. 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