Officiating Offerings – December 2023
These snippets of information are issued regularly by Bowls Tasmania and republished to the BTS website with the permission of the author.
Myths and Misconceptions
The Club President must mark the club singles finals.
Simply not true, a blast from the past. Your club singles finals are the premier event at your club, your best club marker should mark the game. An inexperienced or poor marker can ruin a game. If your club President is not your best marker involve then in the game in another role, Scoreboard?, umpire?, commentator? A club may have a protocol that club President’s mark singles finals.
Umpiring question
Can a player change their bowls during a game? No. But they may change their set because:
- A bowl has been damaged (Law 29.3.1.1) (Law 31), or
- The game has been moved between a vegetation surface and a synthetic or indoor surface (Law 29.3.1.2), or
- The game has been stopped and is continued on another day; a player can use a different set of bowls to the set that they used during the game that was stopped (Law 29.3.2).
Leonie Price
Officiating, Coaching and Bowling Arm Director
Bowls Tasmania