Celebrating the winners of the Garfield Bowling Club's Big Bash tournament are (from left) tournament director Damian Brick with Garfield team Gwen Fabris, Henry Breteler and Cheryl Breteler.
Garfield Bowling Club hosted the first of its two Big Bash tournaments for the season on Sunday.
The Big Bash is a format similar to that seen on Bowls TV, where teams play five games of five ends. The top four teams then play off in finals.
This event, held during the spring racing carnival, had a Melbourne Cup theme. All the teams carried names of significant Cup winners.
Garfield put on a nice day for the event, with light cloud and a breeze, to be enjoyed by all.
After the five rounds of play, four teams stood out on top of the ladder. Those teams then played semi-finals and a grand-final.
The two winners of the semi-finals were the teams finishing third and fourth, showing yet again that finals pressure does strange things to people.
The winners, carrying the name of 1970s great "Think Big", were Henry and Cheryl Breteler with skip Gwen Fabris.
They defeated the Narre Warren team of Arthur Scheurer, Kery Cadman and Denise Cole.
