A bocce court is a party. David Brewer installs parties. Brewer, the San Rafael landscaper behind Boccebrew, has installed 30 or so bocce courts in backyards, parks and wineries in the past three years. He s turned a lot of lawns into parties since the day he discovered bocce in a friend s backyard five years ago. Everybody had a glass of wine and everybody had a good time, Brewer said.
Bocce is a game in which colored balls are rolled down a flat, rectangular course.
A mixture of lawn bowling and shuffleboard, the bocce players master strategy and touch to get their four balls as close as possible to a target ball or pallino . It sounds simple, but mastery of the game is elusive, and the social, talking, bragging fun is endless. His latest court creation was completed at David and Nancy Cherneys Novato home last week. The Cherneys were going through a total remodeling of their house and yard when a landscaper suggested a bocce court. We had this long narrow spot, and we were thinking about putting in a putting green, David Cherney says.