Where should a bowler look when delivering a bowl?
A few relatively experienced bowlers actually focus their attention on the jack or equivalent objective when they deliver a bowl. They subconsciously integrate the pace of the green and the bias of their bowls and adopt a good delivery line without thinking much about it or looking in that direction. An equivalent technique (in a vertical plane) is commonly used in darts, archery, rifle shooting, etc. It is difficult to master, but the method has the advantage that it is unaffected by the location of the mat. Most lawn bowlers consciously judge the pace of the green and expect that their bowls will turn a particular amount under those conditions. From the mat, they seek a landmark on or beyond the bank that corresponds with the angle that they expect their bowl to turn. The landmark provides an aiming line. Alternatively, they visualise an aiming line extending forward from visible features of the mat. They generally maintain the orientation of their delivery movement either by sense o
