Chris Horiuchi, 24, and Andrea Chow, 23, lawn bowl during Santa Monica Lawn Bowling Club’s Annual open House  on Saturday, May 11, 2013.

Lawn bowls is a finesse-skill game, sometimes referred to as “billiards on grass”.  Although it is a sport for all ages, and played both as a recreation and highly competitive international sport, it’s low impact manner and unique social interaction appeals especially to adults and seniors.      

California’s first lawn bowling green opened in 1901 at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, followed in Southern California by bowling complexes in Redlands, Pasadena and Long Beach.  Currently, the Southland has 38 lawn bowling clubs from San Diego south to Santa Maria north.