Richard Corsie


Richard Corsie MBE is a Scottish international outdoor and indoor bowls player, he is considered to be among the best bowls players of all time.

Bowls career

Corsie won the World Indoor Bowls Championships singles title three times during his career and also won the pairs title twice with Alex Marshall and Graham Robertson respectively.
He won the pairs title at the 1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship with Marshall and two years later won a Commonwealth Games gold medal in the singles at the 1994 Commonwealth Games beating his long-time nemesis and friend Tony Allcock in the final.
He was the Chairman of the Professional Bowls Association when the World Bowls Tour was formed on 1 January 1997.

Awards

Corsie was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in March 2010.