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Lemme fix it: Where England is (or was) a land of forests (remember Sherwood, where Robin Hood & Co. hung out?), Scotland is primarily a country of open grassland, having been denuded of its somewhat stunted trees centuries back. It makes sense, then, that golf and lawn bowling, both of them dependent on lush, shorn grasslands, were both developed in their modern forms in Scotland. Lawn bowling, or bowls, once popular in both England and Scotland, received a major set-back in England when various kings from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries prohibited commoners from playing it. (There’s a moral here, something about the close link between the exclusive and the extinct.) Both bowls and golf therefore came to North America with Scottish immigrants, and along with those sports, of course, came a yen for the lawns on which they were played. In Canada, it was bowling that played an early pro-lawn role. The game also got off to a promising start in what became the U.S. (bowling greens were cultivated in Virginia and in Boston before 1650), but after the Revolutionary War the new young country tossed the baby with the bathwater, spurning bowls as it did all things British. Across the U.S., towns named Bowling Green commemorate bowls, but perhaps only a few residents understand the history of their town’s name. In Canada, which negotiated a peaceful independence from Britain in 1867, bowls remained popular - and of course it required large, flat stretches of closely mown grass. An influx of Scottish immigrants in the late 19th century gave the game a boost in Canada and revived it to some extent in the U.S.
