History
1945 Kangaroo Flat Men’s Bowls Club formed and Front Green commenced
1947 Kangaroo Flat Ladies Bowls Club formed
1949 Club wins first BDBA Pennant - C Grade
1953 Original wooden clubhouse opened
1957 Ladies Pennant side entered in BDBA
1962 First extension to wooden clubhouse
1965 Ladies win first BDLBA Pennant -Div 1
1972 Second extension to clubhouse now brick
1974 Consumer Liquor Licence obtained
1977 Shelters erected at Station Street end of A Green
1980 Colour TV purchased for bar
1984 Private land purchased for C Green. House next to Bowling Club purchased.
1986 Club becomes incorporated
1988 Full Liquor Licence obtained
1992 A Green sown with tift dwarf
1993 Men win first A1 Premiership, and six shelters erected at North end
of A and B Greens
1994 Security System installed in Clubhouse
1995 Coloured shirts for Mens Pennant introduced, and major upgrade of kitchen
1996 B Green sown with tift dwarf
1997 Club wins five Premierships-Two Ladies and Three Men
1998 Automatic water system installed, and Club land purchased
from Government
1999 Club becomes a Member of Kangaroo Flat Sports Club, and draft plans
drawn up for new clubhouse
2000 Club is restructured with Board of Management, and Men’s
and Ladies Sections
2002 Construction of new club house, and Club obtains own internet web site.
2003 New Clubhouse opened
2004 Club operates under severe water restrictions, due to drought.
2005 Club win three Premierships.
* Men’s A1 and A2 and Ladies Division 2
* Men’s A1 win Group Pennant Championship
2006 Club forced to purchase water due, to severe restrictions.
Club wins two Premierships.
* Ladies Division 4
* Men’s A3
2008 Outdoor entertaining area opened.
2009 Club Wins two Premierships
* Men’s A2 and C1
* A2 win Group Pennant Championship
2011 Club wins two Premierships
* Ladies Division 2
* Men’s Section A2
2015 Club wins Saturday Division 9 Premiership
2016 Club wins Saturday Division 7 Premiership
2018 Club Wins three Saturday Premierships - Divisions 4, 5, 7
2019 Club wins Midweek Division 5 Premiership
2019 Club considers development of third full size green (synthetic) on site of old Kangaroo Flat swimming pool
2020 Club wins Midweek Division 2, and Weekend Divisions 2 and 6 Premierships
2021 Club wins Midweek Division 1 and 3, and Division 2 Weekend Premierships
2021 Work begins on Synthetic Green to replace B Green, and new lights
installed on A and B Green
2021 At the 2021 Annual Meeting the Club changed its Management Structure to a Board of Directors.
2021 Club in Covid 19 lockdown. Only fully vaccinated persons able to enter the Clubhouse and play bowls.
2023 Club wins Weekend Pennant Division 4
2022 New synthetic B Green Opened. Cost of the project made possible with a State government Funding grant of $330,000.
2022 Weekend Pennant Division 4 Premiership
2023 Official Opening of the Re-constructed “A” Green at a cost of $256,000. Green sown to tift dwarf.
2023 Weekend Pennant Division 5 & 7 Premierships
2024 Weekend Pennant Division 1 and Division 5 Premierships. Construction of a new 8x4 metres rollers shed on “A” Green.
2024 Brad Marron wins Victorian “Champion of Champions” event.
1963 building
New synthetic green 2022
Life Members
J. Wesley
R. O’Donohoo
R. Burgess
A. Hambridge
T.V. Jackson
R. Boromeo
D. Stevenson
C. Clark
G. Robinson
A. Danson
R. Alexander
M. Hutcheson
F. Mackay
V. Pannell
A. Mills
D. McMahon
R. Morrall
G. Dickie
R. Murphy
R. Walker
M. Bickley
W. Boyd
J. Ritchie
K. Dower
J. Millar
M. Steel
B. Boromeo
M. Danson
P. Lanyon