Ray Pearse

Ray Pearse is an international Australian lawn bowler, born on 25 July 1984. He has won four medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, a silver and a bronze in 2015 and, at the 2019 championships on the Gold Coast in Queensland, a bronze in the singles and a silver in the pairs with Nathan Rice. At home he won the 2018 Australian National Bowls Championships and in the same year took the New South Wales Champion of Club Champions singles and the New South Wales state singles titles. In 2021 he won his second Australian Open crown, this time in the pairs. With Samantha Atkinson he won the pairs title at the 2024 World Bowls Indoor Championships, held at the Guernsey Indoor Bowling Association, and later in 2024 he won the Australian Open fours with Peter Taylor, Gary Kelly and Carl Healey, which was his third Australian Open title.