This past week was a fun, fun week with sports competitions between the Canadian residents and USA residents. 

In a closely contested game, the US eked out a narrow win in volleyball (there were a number of semi-pros playing for both sides.) 

Kay and I watched the Lawn Bowling competition on Tuesday, a sport with lots of participation here in the resort. Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a “jack” or “kitty”. It is played on a bowling green which is close-cropped, neatly manicured grass surface (or sometimes artificial turf). It is hugely popular in the United Kingdom. The USA squeaked out a narrow victory. 

Softball is also a “big-time” sport here at Palm Creek, with several teams being made-up of residents. Two games were played for the tournament. The Americans lost the first game, with “B” team members, in an error-plagued seven innings while the Canadians were near perfect. The second game with “A” players was outstanding with really good athletes—men and women—on both sides. Their throws and running was not hampered at all by age, and the women were just as good as the guys. The US won big. 

Pickleball was by far the most popular event. Played on Saturday afternoon to a standing room only crowd of several hundred, the 5.0 ranked women and men faced off in women’s, men’s, mixed doubles, and singles matches. It was incredible pickleball and after watching these folks play, it is easy to understand whey they are considered expert. There were a number of former pros—men and women—playing. The US barely won for the day, but the Canadians were very, very close in number of games won.

There were also contested matches in golf, tennis, pool, poker, shuffleboard, and horseshoes.

While the CanAm week was big, our resident pickleball tournament this next week will be even bigger with almost 500 entries.