Tucson Petanque Club

The Tucson Petanque Club is located in Tucson, Arizona, USA. We play weekly on Sunday afternoons from mid-October through the end of April. For practical reasons, we do not play on Easter Sunday.

TPC will resume regular play Sunday, October 16, 2016

The Tucson Petanque Club is an informal group of Tucson residents and winter visitors. We use this web site to co-ordinate times and places to play, but we don’t keep a membership list. To join us, simply come out and play with us. If you wish, you can sign up for email notifications of our events (see below).

• We play at the Reid Park bandshell terrain at 2 pm on Sunday afternoon.
• Reid Park is big, so you need precise directions in order to be able to find us.
• Visitors and beginners welcome.
• If you have boules, bring ’em. If you don’t, we have guest boules.
• If you’d just like to watch, that’s fine. We have lawn chairs.
• Bring a bottle of water. It’s easy to get dehydrated in Tucson.
• We recommend that you leave your purse and other valuables in the car. We’ve never had any problems, but you’ll be able to concentrate better on the game if you’re not worrying about something else.
• Note that consumption of wine or liquor is prohibited in Tucson city parks.

Want to play at some other day, time, location?

Contact us (see below).

How to contact us

To contact us send us a message (below). Your message will be forwarded to us via email, and we will be able to reply to you via email.

For last-minute questions, directions, cancellations, and weather reports, or just to speak to a live human person, here is our telephone contact information.

How to get email notifications of upcoming events

If you sign up for email notifications, whenever news of an event (or cancellation) is posted here, the post will be sent to you in an email message. The email messages contain an “unsubscribe” link, so you can unsubscribe whenever you wish.

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Never played before?

If you would like to learn, or just try, petanque, come down and join us. We’ll give you a free five-minute lesson and you’ll be good to go. You don’t need to be especially “athletic” to play petanque. If you can swing an arm, you can play and enjoy petanque. Petanque is a game of skill, not strength, and men and women can compete on an equal footing. We have kid-size guest boules for those smaller hands.

Buying a set of boules

In petanque, each player typically owns his or her own set of three boules (metal balls).   We provide guest boules, but if after playing for a while you want to own your own set, you can order your own boules online. For tips on buying boules online, visit the Buying Boules page. The best online store for petanque boules is the Petanque America online store.

For more information about the game of petanque

• Petanque Portal USA has links to the most useful petanque web sites.
• The All about Petanque blog covers all the basics of the game and its traditions.

About other petanque clubs in Arizona

• There is a well-established club in the Jerome/Verde Valley/Sedona area. Contact information is available on the American Petanque Directory.
• In the Phoenix area, petanque players are currently trying to find each other. Check out the web site of the Phoenix Petanque Club. Also, you might find contact information for Phoenix petanque players on the American Petanque Directory.
• For information about bocce in Tucson, we suggest you try THIS.

A good two-minute video introduction to petanque

See also the comprehensive English-language source for The Rules of Petanque.