Peter Line (bowls)


Peter A Line is a former English international lawn and indoor bowler.

Bowls career

World Championships

Line won the fours gold medal with Norman King, Cliff Stroud and Ted Hayward at the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing. Four years later he won two more medals; a bronze medal in the fours with John C Evans, Bill Irish and Tommy Armstrong and a silver medal in the team event.

Commonwealth Games

Line won the gold medal in the pairs with Norman King during the 1970 British Commonwealth Games and four years later won a silver medal with John Evans in the 1974 British Commonwealth Games.

National

Line bowled for the Atherley Club and Banister Park in Southampton, Hampshire, and won the national singles title in 1961 and 1964.
He first played for England in 1955.

Personal life

He is married to a fellow England international, Wendy Line. and by trade he was a civil service cartographical draughtsman and joined the Banister Park Bowls Club in 1948.