With her foot touching the mat, Tess Ball bowls during a tournament at the San Francisco Lawn Bowling Club in Golden Gate Park on Aug. 18.

Tucked behind Witter Pool in Mission Park, members of the Spokane Lawn Bowling Club congregate over a pile of colorful ...

The Bowls USA national championship is being held at Lake Park in Milwaukee, with 48 players competing in singles and pairs divisions.

Tucked behind the Gamble estate on Embarcadero Road, the 84-year-old Palo Alto Lawn Bowls Club has a long history in the city.

Fort Lauderdale Lawn Bowling Club president Jim Wilson rolls another bowl (the balls are called bowls) across the flawlessly manicured Hardy Park lawn.

This is Krasnoff’s second year bowling with the Sunrise Lawn Bowls Club, the group that occupies the lawn bowling area at the park.

Clearwater Lawn Bowls Club celebrates its 100th year of playing a unique sport. Kind of like bocce ball, kind of like curling, lawn bowling is a fun, addictive game.

It's like bowling, but outside. And it's been low-key happening in Jersey for a century.

The bowling green in the Summit City will have the capacity for eight lawn bowls games to take place at once.