Scottish Target Shooting

In 1966 the Commonwealth Games (or the British Empire and Commonwealth Games as they had previously been called) were held in Kingston, Jamaica. This was the first time that the games had been held outside of the Australia, New Zealand, Canada or the UK. Target shooting was not among the 9 sports proposed to be held. However at a late stage it was found that the island of Jamaica could not provide bowling greens to the requisite standard and target shooting was added to the list of sports in the place of lawn bowls.