“THERE’S probably not many other sports similar to it – I think golf would be one, though; we don’t think on our feet like hockey or footy or AFL or anything like that. You play a shot and then you’ve got downtime.  You switch on, switch off, and you try to have processes in order to do that successfully.” 

Lawn bowler and recent inductee into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, Karen Murphy, represented her country for 23 years before retiring from international competition at the age of 45.