--- title: Bowling Team Covers Beyoncé Single Ladie to Save Club description: An Australian bowling club channeled Beyoncé to save their favorite bowling spot. canonical: https://time.com/4880512/beyonce-bowling-video/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-31T15:32:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:01.538Z og:title: All the Bowling Ladies: A Team Covers Beyoncé to Save Club og:description: An Australian bowling club channeled Beyoncé to save their favorite bowling spot og:url: https://time.com/4880512/beyonce-bowling-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a173548fdf58923/6988d6467cdbac618cd59432/gettyimages-531491318.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4608 og:image:height: 2592 og:image:alt: Beyonce "The Formation World Tour" - Pasadena og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: All the Bowling Ladies: A Team Covers Beyoncé to Save Club twitter:description: An Australian bowling club channeled Beyoncé to save their favorite bowling spot twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a173548fdf58923/6988d6467cdbac618cd59432/gettyimages-531491318.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # All the Mature Bowling Ladies Channeled Beyoncé to Save Their Club > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 31, 2017 3:32 PM UTC  PASADENA, CA - MAY 14: Entertainer Beyonce performs onstage during "The Formation World Tour" at the Rose Bowl on May 14, 2016 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage ) PASADENA, CA - MAY 14: Entertainer Beyonce performs onstage during "The Formation World Tour" at the Rose Bowl on May 14, 2016 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage ) Kevin Mazur—WireImage by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 31, 2017 3:32 PM UTC When some of the members of the [Chadstone Bowls Club](http://chadstonebowls.com.au/) heard that the City Council in the Stonnington neighborhood of Melbourne, Australia wanted to tear down their bowling club in order to build a new local stadium, they put their foot down—and their hands up. They’ve just released a protest video that parodies [Beyoncé](http://time.com/4842522/beyonce-jayz-twins-rumi-poet/?iid=sr-link7)’s “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” and features three mature women performing a choreographed dance routine to a bowling-themed version of the tune. While they don’t need anyone to “put a ring on it” per se, they are hoping that their song-and-dance routine will help save their bowling club by spreading the word about their plight and getting more signatures for their petition. It’s a clever ploy, because Stonnington City Council politics don’t usually make the news in the States, but bowling grannies dancing to [Beyoncé](http://time.com/4861596/beyonce-twins-rumi-meaning/?iid=sr-link8) is always newsworthy. Should you want to put your hands up and help them save their club and [head over to Change.org](https://www.change.org/p/stonnington-council-save-chadstone-bowls-club?recruiter=751532515&utm%5Fsource=share%5Fpetition&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=share%5Femail%5Fresponsive) to sign their petition. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4880512/beyonce-bowling-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4880512/beyonce-bowling-video/"},"headline":"All the Mature Bowling Ladies Channeled Beyoncé to Save Their Club","datePublished":"2017-07-31T15:32:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:01.538Z","description":"An Australian bowling club channeled Beyoncé to save their favorite bowling spot","url":"https://time.com/4880512/beyonce-bowling-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","viral","Beyonce","Viral Videos","bowling","Sports"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a173548fdf58923/6988d6467cdbac618cd59432/gettyimages-531491318.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a173548fdf58923/6988d6467cdbac618cd59432/gettyimages-531491318.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Beyonce \"The Formation World Tour\" - Pasadena","caption":"Beyonce \"The Formation World Tour\" - Pasadena","creditText":"Kevin Mazur—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4880512/beyonce-bowling-video/","name":"All the Mature Bowling Ladies Channeled Beyoncé to Save Their Club"}}]}] ```