Think Extreme Sports. Start maybe with a group of heat loving Jamaicans crammed into a narrow Bobsled on an icy track. Slide through a kaleidoscope, see the Reggae Boyz rocking an entire nation and imagine the floating skirt tails of the Sunshine Girls. Pass by the polo fields rich with manure and imagine a two hundred meter sprint from the perspective of one of Usain Bolts over active muscles. All those images we see readily. But it is a bit more difficult to picture a Lawn Bowls Green.

Andrew Newell

A Jamaican on a Lawn Bowls Green, is definitely akin to a Jamaican in a Bobsled. It almost never happens. There is however one Jamaican man who has successfully become the perfect exception to the imperfect rule.

London born Andrew Newell, the offspring of an St. Elizabethan father and a Clarendonian Mother, is as close to Jamaican as it gets. Apart from being well versed in Jamaican values, music, food and culture, he is an avid supporter of Jamaica in any sporting events that happen to be broadcast on television.

Andrew began playing a sport called Lawn Bowls seven years ago after having seen it on television and having watched it live in parks around London. He was instantly interested and went to a local club and joined. He has winned a few semis and finals in regional competitions and is now inspired after his rapid progress in the sport, to pursue the international bowls tournament. Newell though is such a patriot, that he can not imagine playing this sport without representing Jamaica while doing so.

Newell in action on the Greens

Newell says that research he conducted has revealed that due to the lack of a Jamaican governing body for the sport of lawn bowls, it is impossible for him to represent Jamaica as a member of the World Bowls Organization. This organization demands that there be a common interest in the sport in Jamaica, before anything can get started. To date, Newell has not found a Lawn Bowls Green in Jamaica, however he plans to find or create one and create a high profile invitational competition featuring the worlds best and raising awareness of the sport in his families homeland.

Newell will be visiting the island between the 24th of July and the 10th of August and would like to meet anyone with an interest in assisting him pursue his dream of placing Jamaica on yet another world stage.If you are interested in assisting him please contact OGNR @ myognr@gmail.com

Here's to the spirit of Jamaican sport and success. In a country that does not even have one bowling alley, but ample open green land, instead of just squatting and throwing parties,  lets give Lawn Bowls a thought, and a few actions. Who knows which latent world champions are playing marbles in Jamaican streets, unknowingly practicing in preparation for an opportunity to beat the world's best skippers at Lawn Bowls.

Bowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll slightly asymmetric balls, called bowls, so that they stop close to a smallernormally whitebowl called the "jack" or "kitty". Bowls, either flat- or crown-green, is usually played outdoors, on g**** or synthetic surfaces. Flat-green bowls can also be played indoors on synthetic surfaces. Both variants are collectively known as "lawn bowls".

Bowls belongs to the boules sport family, and so is related to bocce and petanque. It is most popular in New Zealand (where the natural playing surface is called cotula,Australia, the United Kingdom, and in other Commonwealth Nations.

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