Road Bowling: Top ten scores of 2025

Many readers will have other scores in their top-ten, others came very close to inclusion in this list too. I wanted to be fair to everyone, try to capture those moments that elevate us above the ordinary when we see the extraordinary.

NUMBER ONE: Kelly Mallon won the Queen of the Roads for the seventh time at Ballincurrig in September

What are the top ten scores of 2025? Which one should be Top of the Pops this Christmas? This is my list of the crème de la crème of bowling in a year of exceptional bowling. In the tradition of Top of the Pops they are in reverse order.

At Number ten is the brilliant Munster Novice II final at Béal na Bláth between Billy Healy and Cathal O’Sullivan. Healy was the line-to-line winner, but much of the score was on a knife-edge, the atmosphere electric and the bowling brilliant.