Claremont Pétanque is an activity of Claremont Human Services and is open to anyone 18-years old and up. We play organized games on Sundays, and pickup games during the week at Larkin Park. If you have your own equipment, you can play there at any time.
Pétanque, pronounced "pay-tonk," one of Europe's most popular outdoor games, is a French cousin of both horseshoes and of the Italian bowling game called "bocce.”
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“Pétanque is both a fun, social activity and a competitive sport. It can be played for leisure in the backyard or park, or competitively up to world championship level. As a year-round outdoor activity it combines skill, tactics, leisure and fun. It is a game for everyone; where grandparents, parents and children can play on equal terms, as neither age, gender nor ability matters. All that is required is a patch of firm ground, a set of balls, called boules, a jack, called a cochonnet and a sense of fun.” — Egon Pozniak, author of Pétanque: Boules Down Under.
Claremont Pétanqueur, Jeff Barnes explains some details during one of the previous afternoons of play with the Claremont TAC participants.
Larkin Park is at the northeast corner of Mountain Avenue and Harrison Avenue. The pétanque courts are near the north end of the eastern parking lot which you enter from Harrison Ave. Click on the image for the Google map.
Check out the Claremont activity catalog in which we were featured! Claremont Pétanque is a city activity, and it costs nothing to join the fun. Just appear at the park on any Sunday afternoon.
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