Billy Hay

William Hay, known as Billy, was an international lawn bowler from Scotland who competed at the Commonwealth Games. He was born around 1963 and died on 28 August 2015. A member of the Oban Bowls Club, he made his international debut for Scotland in 1991 and played in the Home Internationals for the next eight years. He represented Scotland in the fours at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada, with Willie Wood, Ian Laird and Garry Hood, travelling after his employer CalMac allowed him time off and the Oban community raised the funds. He was twice runner-up at the Scottish National Bowls Championships, in the 1995 singles and the 1993 pairs, and in 1994 he bowled for Oban in the final of the MacEwan Cup.