As the dust settles after another exciting season on the Short Mat Players Tour, we are pleased to announce the 16 nominations for our new award, ‘The Players’ Player Of The Season’. Everyone with a Player Profile will be eligible to vote. Simply login to your Player Profile and register your top three choices in order of preference. Voting will close on 1 July 2016 and the winner will be announced on our website thereafter.
Are you forever having to buy blank scorecards for your club/league matches? Fed up of the endless trips to your nearest supplier, wasting time, effort and fuel? Well now the Short Mat Players Tour have the answer!
We are pleased to announce the winners of our three recent promotions.
Gary Burke beat Andrew Leckey 8-7 to take the title. Sean Conroy finished with the Bronze medal following a 10-8 win against Martin McNicholl.
Eddie Crawford wins the Plate over Gerard Moen and Jonas Hager takes home the Shield thanks to a 15-5 win over Jonathan Payne. Joel Hager seals the Order of Merit title.
Live updates from the opening day of the 2016 Henselite World Masters. Defending champion & World number one Mark Beattie is in Group 6.
Don McNamara beats Aidan Corrigan after a tie-break. Jack Pye beats Michael Beattie in the Plate final.
This year's World Masters sees 12 countries represented by 210 bowlers who will form 35 groups. With the event now only a few days away, let's take a closer look at what the draw has meant for the contenders to the Order of Merit crown and also how it may impact on those at the top of the World Rankings.
Here at the SMPT we pride ourselves on providing good quality information for all players and their supporters. Thanks to the creation of our new Player Statistics Database, the amount and variety of information at your disposal just improved significantly!
The SMPT Show Mat concept was first introduced at last year’s Henselite World Masters to enable the optimal viewing of select games. Following popular recent appearances at the Irish Open and Swedish Masters, we have once again chosen a game from each session which we believe deserves to take centre stage!
The draw for the 2016 Henselite World Masters has now been made. You can see all 35 groups here.
The draw for the World 2 Bowl Masters has now been made. The event takes place the day before the World Masters on Friday 15th April.
We are pleased to announce the Short Mat Players Tour will be changing our home venue from Bromsgrove Indoor Bowls Club to the Falcon Indoor Bowling Club for the start of the 2017-18 season.
In an unprecedented move, due to considerable late interest which had resulted in a number of players missing out on a place at the forthcoming World Masters, we have the re-opened entries for a limited period only.
The Short Mat Players Tour would like to thank all the bowlers and their supporters who travelled from across England to take part in the first SMPT Charity Weekend on the 12th and 13th March, at Park Community School in Havant, Hampshire.
Ryan Knight & Stephen Holdsworth have win the John Burgess Pairs 2016 title after beating Craig Burgess & John Pye 8-6 in the final.
Simon Pridham & James Smith have won the Trevor Pay Pairs 2016 after beating Craig Burgess & Phil Mills 13-4 in the final.
The draws for the two events that make up the first Short Mat Players Tour Charity Weekend have now been made.
Entries for the 2016 UK Open are now closed, having reached the 144 player capacity in record time. The popularity of the Short Mat Players Tour is clearly spreading and this growth has lead to the event filling up so quickly.
