Garry Hood

Hood was a member of the Mauchline Bowls Club^[1] and represented Scotland at international level.^[2]

Hood represented the Scottish team^[3] at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada, where he competed in the fours event,^[4] with Willie Wood, Billy Hay and Ian Laird.^[5]

He was the triples champion of Scotland at the 1995 Scottish National Bowls Championships^[6] and subsequently qualified to represent Scotland at the British Isles Bowls Championships, wwinning the triples title in 1996.^[7]

In 1996 he was appointed the bowls co-ordinator for the Thomson Travel Group in Cyprus.^[8]

In 2022, Hood who suffered from Guillain–Barré syndrome, was due to go to his second Commonwealth Games, 28 years after his first. However he lost his place when Bowls Scotland withdrew him following a social media post by Hood.^[9]