Underdale Airport Bowling Club

Yes! Yeah! Fantastic!
Lawn bowls is always treated with a bit of prejudice. It’s basically a joke. We joke about it because it’s what the elderly resort to when their bones and vision won’t let them do anything else.
In keeping with the joke, we took an immensely sporty friend here for his 20^th birthday. I think most of us were more than a little surprised when we realised how much we loved the crap out of it.
There was an elderly gentleman there who helped us out because we were first-​timers. He was a soft-​spoken, perpetually smiling, shy sort of fellow, and the funny thing is we never settled on what his name was. Whenever was asked it, he sort of muttered it as if faintly embarrassed. We privately fought over what it was, but never settled on it and instead just mumbled when we wanted his attention, which added to the fun.
True to his character, the sporty friend quickly decided he was an expert at the game and decided it was his duty to teach the rest of us how to play, including the elderly gentleman who was supposed to be helping us.
The icing on the cake (to use a trite and well-​trodden phrase) was the planes flying in for landing. It really helped inspire a solid landing with the lawn bowl.

The Underdale Airport Bowling Club is an old school club with a small bar serving beers, wines and some spirits in a modest clubroom with a wide screen television and a grand view of the green outside where they welcome new bowlers every week with open arms.
The very popular Night Owls Lawn Bowls sessions attract a very mixed crowd of people in all age groups. It starts every Wednesday and Thursday evening at 7PM from the third week of October each year. They partake in a variety of club activities including raffles, a free supper after the games, free registration — they have access for the disabled and off street parking.
You are welcome to loan bowls and get free assistance if you haven’t played before so it could be a very fun and inexpensive thing to do if you have some time on your hands and a hankering to get involved in a low impact sport. I’ll let you in on a little secret — it is called the «Airport» Bowling Club because of the quite magnificent view you get over the green of planes coming in to land at the Adelaide International Airport which is a kilometer or two away.
There’s usually someone there every day from 10 AM, and you can contact them via email
or call Ken Smith on 0439 900 840