Willie McQueen (bowls) explained

Willie McQueen
Sport:Bowls
Club:Dalserf BC
Blantyre Miners’ Welfare IBC

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

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.

Notes and References

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

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