Trophies

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Trevor Ager Shield

The competition is hosted by our Vice President Trevor Ager and our sponsors Churchill Living

It is the first club competition of the season played in May of each year.

The competition, open to all members, is 3 Wood Pairs played generally to C&D Rules 

• Pairs decided by Random Draw.
• All Shots count on all ends.
• Neither Jack nor Mat is centred.
• Only Bowls within 1 yard of the Jack are counted.
• Bowls to be kept within the Rink, defined by strings.
• There are no dead ends and no touchers.
• The order of play can be changed before an end starts as many times as wished during the game.
• 3 games played over 5 or 6 ends (depending on  numbers).
• Shot difference to be used if needed to decide the winner.

Rules of play

The Mat shall be placed at least 1 Yard from the ditch and string.

The Mat may be as far up the green as desired so long as a 21 Yard cast can be made, retaining the 1 yard from string and ditch rule.

When cast, the Jack shall rest at least 1 yard from a string or ditch. Minimum length of Jack to be 21 yards. 2 casts of the Jack are allowed, then the opposition has 2 casts.

During play if a Bowl touches a string or goes in the ditch it becomes dead and is removed.

During play if the Jack touches a string or goes in the ditch the end will be counted but NO score will be taken. If Bowls or Jack are disturbed during play they may be repositioned by agreement or the end shall be replayed from the same end.

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Arthur Germany

Absent Friends

The Absent Friends Shield was donated by Lorna Dockerill in memory of her husband Leo Dockerill; both were members of the club.

The yellow rose growing on the fence to the west of the green was also planted in memory of Leo Dockerill.

Absent Friends is a competition with teams drawn at random using discs or tokens to decide where each player will be within the team:

The tokens are drawn from a hat by each player and are either red or black, they identify the rink, the team and the position of the player (lead, second or skip).

Games can be Fours, Triples or Doubles depending on the numbers of members attending the event, an example (from 2026 season) is shown in the table below.

Each player carries a scorecard and records his team's score writing down the points for and points against at the end of each game.

The winner is the player with the highest number of total shots. (Trevor)

If more than one player has the same number of shots the number of shots against is taken into account to decide the total. (Trevor)

The winner is the person with the highest net score having subtracted the points against from the points for. (John Collins)

In the event there is still no overall winner players will play end extra end to settle the result, in the 2026 event 2 woods each on rink 2 was the format for the 'decider' end.

The tokens are drawn from a hat by each player and each player carries a scorecard. The player records his team's score writing down the points for and points against. The winner is the person with the highest net score having subtracted the points against from the points for.

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John Culpin

Is a Mixed Pairs competition with teams drawn at random as far as possible:

Ladies names are selected first, paired accordingly and in the event of there being numbers to support it men's pairs may be entered into the competition.

If there are more ladies than gentlemen entered in the competition the men's names will be drawn first and ladies pairs may be drawn. 

The competition, open to all members,  

 

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Dick Moody

We host this Competition in honour of a former Member of our Club who passed well before his time.

Dick was responsible for carrying out a lot of improvements to the facilities at the Club in the 1980’s and 90’s and Captained our CDL team for many years.

A Representative Castle Camps Team made up primarily of Officers and Committee Members of our Club challenge representative teams from the 3 leagues that we play in to win the trophy.

All 3 formats of the game are played over a total of 24 ends and the players are served a meal at the end of the afternoon.

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Buster Moore

Played by teams from SBBL at different greens within the local area.

Castle Camps Bowls Club winning team 2025 - Sue & John Collins and Eric Stone (at Birdbrook Bowls Club)

Castle Camps Bowls Club winning team 2012 - Rose & Ron Goodwin and Roy Oatham