Pip Branfield

Philip Branfield, known as Pip, born in 1952, is a former English international lawn bowler from the Clevedon club in Somerset. He won his first national title in 1984, when the Clevedon and Somerset triples team of Branfield, his father Len Branfield and Gordon James took the national championship triples. A second national title came 24 years later in 2008, when he bowled in the winning fours team alongside his son James Branfield, Darren Mason and John Hick, which meant he had been a national champion with both his father and his son. He played for England as an international from 1979 until 1991 and was selected for the fours at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. He later served as team manager for England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. His daughter Stef Branfield is also an England international bowler, so lawn bowls has run through three generations of his family.