Preston Lawn Bowling Club

Law 7 Position on the mat

• Before delivery a player must be standing on the mat with all or part of one foot on the mat. At the moment they deliver the jack or a bowl, the player should have all or part of one foot on or above the mat.

• Before delivery a player using an approved wheelchair should have one wheel on the mat and, at the moment they deliver the jack or a bowl, the player should have all or part of one wheel on or above the mat.

• Any player not meeting the terms of this law is committing a foot-fault, and law 8 will apply.

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Law 8 Foot-faulting

• If the umpire, either by their own observation or on appeal by one of the skips or opponents in Singles, decides that a player has not met the terms of law 7, the umpire should, on the first occasion, warn the player in the presence of the skip and advise the manager or the coach when they are present that a warning has been given.

• On each occasion after this, the umpire should have the player’s bowl stopped and declared dead.

• If it has not been possible to stop the bowl and it disturbs the head, the opponent should choose whether to:

  replace the head;

  leave the head as altered; or

  declare the end dead.

• If a player has been given a warning and still fails to meet the terms of law 20 while delivering the jack, law 10.2 will apply.

 

In other words:

Whenever you are delivering a bowl or the jack you must start by standing with one foot partly on the mat. It doesn’t matter if you have both feet, or part of the second foot, or none of the second foot on the mat. Just make sure that one foot is partially on the mat.

Then when you release the bowl or jack one foot or a part of one foot must be on or over the mat. (Unless you are some sort of bowler who runs up to the mat and hurls the bowl and keeps running, this won’t happen to you).