Colin Best

Colin Best is an Irish international lawn bowler who became a British champion in the 1990s. He first won the singles at the Irish National Bowls Championships in 1993, which made him the national singles champion of Ireland for that year. The following year, in 1994, he went on to win the singles at the British Isles Bowls Championships, the event that brings together the champions of the home nations and gives its winner the title of British champion in the sport. Lawn bowls is a precision target sport in which players roll biased bowls along a green to finish as close as possible to a small white jack, and the singles format is the purest test of an individual player. Best is recorded as a former British champion, and his two titles within consecutive seasons mark him as one of the leading Irish singles bowlers of his era.