How to Lay Lawn Bowls
- 1). Measure out a rectangle 125 feet long by 14 feet wide for each rink (playing area), and mow the grass to less than ½ inch high, which is about the height of the grass on a golf green.
- 2). Insert stakes at each of the four corners of the rink and tie strings between them to mark off the rink. Alternatively, dust chalk along the rink boundary lines.
- 3). Create the invisible center line by setting one of the yellow stakes (or cones) along the boundary width at the top of the rink halfway across -- seven feet from either corner and the other yellow stake (or cone) at the halfway point of the opposite end of the rink, on the boundary.
- 4). Dig a narrow ditch along the two widths, just outside the boundary line to catch balls rolled too hard.
- 5). Begin play with the first player setting the mat on the center line where he wishes ("laying the mat") and rolling the jack. Continue to play your game of lawn bowls.