Bad Santas hold up bowls club

Police are on the lookout for two bad Santas who held up a Townsville bowls club at knifepoint.

The pair were dressed in white beards and Santa hats as they robbed the Cutheringa Bowls Club on Sunday, and police are hoping local retailers selling Christmas costumes will be able to help them catch the two men.

Townsville CIB officer-in-charge Detective Senior Sergeant Brett McLucas said the men threatened a female attendant and demanded she put money into a shopping bag.

She complied before escaping through the club's rear entrance, he said.