Willie Adrain

William Willie Adrain (1926 to 1997) was a Scottish international lawn bowler from the Dreghorn Bowling Club. He began playing at the age of 12 after his father James, the club's bowls greenkeeper, introduced him to the sport, and his uncle, also called Willie, was a Scottish international too. Adrain competed at the first World Bowls Championship, held at Kyeemagh in New South Wales, Australia in 1966, where he won a bronze medal in the fours with Willie Dyet, Bert Thomson and Harry Reston and a silver medal in the team event for the Leonard Trophy. He represented Scotland at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada, in the fours with Doug Copland, John Fleming and Dick Bernard, and won the singles title at the 1963 Scottish National Bowls Championships. His son George Adrain became a Commonwealth champion and two times world champion.