Richard Corsie MBE - Lawn Bowls
Born 1966, Inducted 2010
Scotland has a rich bowling history and Richard Corsie has certainly contributed to it through an impressive array of titles, both indoor and outdoor. His first major outdoor win came in 1983 when he became the Scottish Junior Singles champion and later that year added the British Isles Junior title. The following year he received his first of many caps for Scotland and two years later, at just 19 years of age he won bronze in the Singles on his Commonwealth Games debut in Edinburgh. He added a further Commonwealth bronze in Singles in 1990 before striking gold in Canada in 1994.
Richard went on to become a triple World Indoor Singles Bowls Champion and was capped continuously for Scotland between 1989 and 1998. Richard was widely acclaimed as the most naturally gifted player Scotland has ever produced and his premature retirement in 2003 to pursue his business interests was a huge loss to the game.