Phil Skoglund

OBE

Personal information
Birth name	Philip Charles Skoglund
Born	(1937-06-20)20 June 1937 Palmerston North, New Zealand
Died	8 May 2015(2015-05-08) (aged 77) Palmerston North, New Zealand
Years active	1958–2015
Relative(s)	Philip Skoglund (father) Pete Skoglund (uncle)
Sport
Sport	Bowls
Club	Northern
Medal record Representing New Zealand Commonwealth Games 1978 Edmonton Fours 1974 Christchurch Pairs 1990 Auckland Fours World Outdoor Championships 1984 Aberdeen Men's fours 1988 Auckland Men's triples

Philip Charles SkoglundOBE (20 June 1937 – 8 May 2015) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player, and part of New Zealand's greatest lawn bowls family dynasty.

Born in 1937 atPalmerston North, he was the son of politician and cabinet ministerPhilip Oscar Skoglund and nephew of champion lawn bowls playerPete Skoglund.

He was the youngestNew Zealand National Bowls Championships 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 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.^[1]

Skoglund was appointed anOfficer of the Order of the British Empire in the1988 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to bowls,^[2] and was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.^[3] In 2013, Skoglund was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.^[4]

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 runner-up in the National Singles. Together they were second in the National Fours with their father and Brett O'Riley in 1991.

Skoglund was a transport company manager and was married to Carol. He died in Palmerston North in 2015.^[5]

• Who's Who in New Zealand, 12th edition 1991
• Article inNew Zealand Listener, 8 January 1990, volume 126 pp20–21

• Phil Skoglund Snr at theNew Zealand Olympic Committee

• 1937 births
• 2015 deaths
• New Zealand male bowls players
• Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand
• Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand
• Bowls players at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
• Bowls players at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
• Bowls players at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
• Bowls players at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
• Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
• New Zealand businesspeople
• Sportspeople from Palmerston North
• New Zealand Officers of the Order of the British Empire
• Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
• Bowls World Champions
• Medallists at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
• Medallists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
• Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
• 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen

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