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David Gourlay Senior is a former Scottish international lawn and indoor bowler born on 24 May 1937.
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David Gourlay Senior is a former Scottish international lawn and indoor bowler born on 24 May 1937.
Gourlay Sr. helped Scotland win the 1984 World Outdoor Bowls Team Event (the W.M.Leonard Trophy) in Aberdeen. [1]
He has won the Scottish and British Indoor Pairs, Triples and Fours Championships and has been capped by Scotland both indoors and outdoors.
His greatest achievement was winning the 1982 Commonwealth Games Pairs title with John Watson. [2] His wife Sarah Gourlay won a Fours Gold Medal at the 1985 World Outdoor Championships in Melbourne and his son David Gourlay Jr. won the 1996 World Indoor Bowls Championship. [3]
He is related to the Scottish footballers James Gourlay and Jimmy Gourlay. [4]
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Watson came to prominence in 1975 after winning the Scottish Indoor Junior Singles title. Three years later he defeated Jim Blake in the Scottish National Singles final and then won his first international indoor cap in 1979.
Watson won the 1982 World Indoor Bowls Championship but refused to accept his prize money so that he could compete in the 1982 Commonwealth Games. the decision to compete in the Commonwealth Games proved fruitful because he won the Pairs Gold Medal with David Gourlay Sr.
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