Willie McQueen (bowls)

Willie McQueen was a Scottish international lawn and indoor and indoor bowler.[1]

Willie McQueen
Personal information
Nationality Scotland
Sport
SportBowls
ClubDalserf BC
Blantyre Miners’ Welfare IBC
Medal record
Representing  Scotland
World Outdoor Championships
1980 Melbourne triples
1980 Melbourne fours
1980 Melbourne fours

Bowls career

He won a silver medal in the triples, a silver medal in the fours and a bronze medal in the team event (Leonard Trophy) at the 1980 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Melbourne.[2] He was capped 69 times outdoors for Scotland from 1967 until 1989.[3]

Awards

McQueen bowled indoors for the Blantyre Miners’ Welfare Indoor Bowling Club and was posthumously inducted into the Scottish Indoor Bowls Hall of Fame in 2016.[4]

He was given the nickname 'Machine McQueen' by the legendary David Bryant due to his resilience on the bowling greens.

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References
  1. "Profile". Bowls tawa.
  2. Newby, Donald (1991). Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
  3. "Seven sacrificed in bid to stop rot". The Herald.
  4. "Blantyre Miners' Welfare Indoor Bowling receive top honours". Daily Record.


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