About the Club

The Commonwealth Lawn Bowling Club is located in north west Edmonton. You will find us north of Telus World of Science in the midst of busy Coronation Park. The club proudly hosted the 1978 Commonwealth Games bowls tournament and was honoured to have Queen Elizabeth II observe that international tournament. The Queen’s viewing balcony is still part of our building.

Any occasion is a good excuse to meet or make friends before or after a game on that balcony or on our patio, in our comfortable clubhouse area or in our beautiful gardens. The clubhouse and grounds are licensed with an onsite bar and we can accommodate catered meals as well. We do our best to complement the park setting that the club resides in, with well-cared-for gardens and landscaping, while maintaining healthy and beautiful greens to play on.

We take pride in creating a relaxing and casual recreational playing environment for our club members and guests. We also are the site of competitive club, provincial and national championships, where we get to see and experience some of the top bowlers in our sport. For the first time as well we are trying our competitive croquet on one of our greens.

Commonwealth Lawn Bowling Club is one of the largest facilities of its kind in Canada. It means there are lots of opportunities to play, practice, get coaching advice and invite family and friends to try lawn bowls. Come join us and see for yourself!

About Lawn Bowls

Bowls is a fun, strategic and challenging sport that can be enjoyed by anyone. It is played on a large, 120 feet long, smooth grass surface called a “green”. The green is divided into playing areas called “rinks”. Each rink is 14 feet wide. With the rinks placed side by side, there are typically 8 rinks per green, allowing multiple games to occur at the same time.

Lawn bowls are large, bowl-shaped balls, with a smooth surface in the middle between two flattened sides. One side of the bowl is biased (has more weight or bulk than the other side), so that the bowl travels along a curved path, rather than going straight.

The object of the game is to roll your bowls closer to the target than your opponents. The target is a small white ball called a “jack”. Players from each team take turns rolling their bowls down the green toward the jack. When all the bowls have been played in one direction, the players have completed an “end”. The player or team with the closest bowl to the jack earns one point for each bowl closer to the jack than the nearest opponent bowl.

Teams can be made up of 1, 2, 3 or 4 players. Depending on the number of players per team, each player will roll 4, 3 or 2 bowls during each end of play. Games typically are played for 10-12 ends (about 90 minutes), with competitive play running longer.

Bowls is easy to learn but can take a lifetime to master. Come start playing with us!