Phil Skoglund

Phil Skoglund
Medal record
Men's Lawn bowls
Competitor for  New Zealand
Commonwealth Games
Silver 1978 Edmonton Fours
Bronze 1974 Christchurch Pairs
Bronze 1990 Auckland Fours

Philip Charles "Phil" Skoglund, OBE (born 20 June 1937), is a New Zealand lawn bowls player from Palmerston North and part of New Zealand's greatest lawn bowls family dynasty.

He was born in 1937 at Palmerston North. He is a son of politician and cabinet minister Philip Oscar Skoglund and nephew of champion lawn bowls player Pete Skoglund.

He was the youngest National singles champion at 20, in 1958. He competed in five World Championships (1966, 1972, 1980, 1984 & 1988), winning a gold medal (triples 1988), two silver medals (fours 1984 & 1988) and three bronzes (pairs 1980, fours 1980, triples 1984) He has competed in five Commonwealth Games, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982 and 1990 (not 1986 because of a sport-wide dispute over amateurism). He played indifferently in the singles in 1970, hence has been mainly lead in the pairs and fours skip, despite being National singles champion 1970, 1971, 1972 (and in 1958 & 1966). He won a Commonwealth Games bronze in pairs 1974 and in fours 1990; and a silver in fours, 1978.

He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to bowls,[1] and was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.[2]

His son Philip Skoglund junior played for New Zealand at the 1992 World Bowls and the 1994 Commonwealth Games. Philip Skoglund junior and his brother Raymond Skoglund won the National Pairs in 1999, where Philip junior was also runnerup in the National Singles. Together they were runnersup in the National Fours with their father and Brett O'Riley in 1991.

Skoglund is a retired transport company manager and is married to Carol.

References

  1. ↑ London Gazette (supplement), No. 51367, 10 June 1988. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
  2. ↑ Manawatu Legends of Sport 2007 - Phil Skoglund OBE. Sport Manawatu. Retrieved 25 January 2013.