Scott Edwards

Scott Edwards is an English indoor bowler who competes on the professional open circuit and at the World Indoor Bowls Championships. He has qualified for the world indoor championships on six occasions, in 2013, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, reaching the singles quarter-final in 2019, where he lost to Les Gillett, and the pairs semi-final in 2022. On the open circuit he beat two world champions at the International Open, Paul Foster in 2017 and Mark Dawes in 2018, and he finished the 2017/18 season ranked number 1 in the Open Singles Circuit with a record points score of 490. He was runner-up in the national singles in 2010, has won the Bournemouth Open twice, and holds a long list of open singles, triples and pairs titles at venues such as Worthing, Cheltenham, Hove and Salisbury. Before concentrating on bowls he was a full time professional poker player between 2010 and 2016.