Willie McQueen was a Scottish international lawn and indoor and indoor bowler.

Bowls career

He won a

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in the

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in the fours and a

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in the team event (Leonard Trophy) at the

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. He was capped 69 times outdoors for Scotland from 1967 until 1989.

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

References

Scottish male bowls players Year of birth missing Year of death missing {{UK-bowls-bio-stub