Phil Rowlands
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British (Welsh) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Lawn and indoor bowls |
| Club | Penhill BC Cardiff IBC |
Philip "Phil" Rowlands is a former international lawn bowler from Wales who competed at the Commonwealth Games.
Biography
[edit]Rowlands was born into a bowling family, his father Keith and grandfather Tom both being Welsh internationals.[1] Phil was a member of the Penhill Bowls Club.[2]
Rowlands represented the Welsh team[3] at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada,[4] where he competed in the fours event, with Wyn Matthews, Jim Hoskins and Dai Wilkins.[5][6]
Rowlands played for Cardiff indoors[7] and in 2011 he won his second Welsh national indoor championship singles, a title he had previously won 21 years before in 1990.[8]
Rowlands later became the secretary of the Ynyscynon Bowls Club.[9]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Bowls: Great win for Wales' Phil Rowlands". Wales Online. 19 March 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
- ↑ "South Glam clash". South Wales Echo. 16 May 1992. p. 41. Retrieved 10 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Unlucky Price out of Games". South Wales Echo. 16 July 1994. p. 32. Retrieved 10 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Biggest ever in Welsh Games bid". South Wales Echo. 18 May 1994. p. 39. Retrieved 10 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Wales Victoria 1994". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ "Gold on the Greens". South Wales Echo. 29 July 1994. p. 51. Retrieved 10 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Star performers can make it a sparkler". South Wales Echo. 1 April 1995. p. 40. Retrieved 10 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Bowls: Phil Rowlands rolls back the years". Wales Online. 3 February 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
- ↑ "Ynyscynon BC". Welsh Bowls. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
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