Bob Sutherland

Bob Sutherland (born 21 May 1942, died 30 March 1997) was a Scottish lawn and indoor bowler who came to bowls after a football career. He was a member of the Bathgate outdoor bowls club and the West Lothian indoor bowls club. Glasgow Rangers signed him in 1959 and he stayed with them until 1964 before moving to Stirling Albion, where a knee injury forced him to retire from football, and he began bowling in 1968. In 1983 he won the Scottish national indoor singles and the British Isles indoor singles, and in the same year he achieved his greatest success by winning the 1983 World Indoor Bowls Championship. He died of cancer on 30 March 1997, and this entry records only the career facts that his article states.