Competitive Fixtures – Purley Bowls Club has a very active fixture list with matches both home and away against many local clubs and occasionally against some distant clubs such as Southampton Old Bowls Club. All members are proactively ecnouraged to sign up for as many matches as they can play.

Match Selection – Our match selection process ensures that everyone who wants to play in matches gets multiple opportunities to do so. Our selection process for friendlies focuses on participation and progression for all players ensuring that there is a balance of experienced and less experienced players. For external league matches the selection criteria is progressively more critical especially for the top level leagues but our selection process still gives all players an equal chance of participation based on skill, form, team mentaility and progression.

Competion Selection – Purley Bowls Club proactively encourages all members to sign up for competitions, internal and external. Competition matches provide incredible experience in understanding the skills, tactics and strategy required to succeed at whatever bowls level a bowler aspires to. All players can enter any competition they want except those where the club is invited to enter a representative team, these are selected by the club committee.

Travel For Away Matches – For away matches Purley members will usually organise for some people to meet at the club prior to travel and car share to the away venues. This is very useful for players who haven’t been “Away” before and enhances the team bonding prior to and after matches.

Below is a table of the types of matches that Purley bowlers play in.