The ceremonial opening bowl is thrown at Lochgilphead Bowling Club by reigning ladies champion Mavis Yuill.
Grace Heafey throws the first jack to mark the opening of the season at Ardrishaig Bowling and Tennis Club.
ALONG with the cuckoo and the first sightings of swallows, a main harbingers of spring is the appearance of bowlers on manicured lawns, desperate to get the season under way.