A runner-up finish in last week’s Co-operative Funeralcare Scottish International Open in Perth has taken England’s Greg Harlow to the top of the first provisional World Bowls Tour world rankings for next season.

It was a good day for the west country at the Co-operative Funeralcare Scottish International Open in Perth where Devonians Ian Bond and Robert Paxton both continued their surge in the opening World Bowls Tour event of the season to reach the quarter-finals at Dewars Centre.

Success for the fourth time at the Potters Holidays World Indoor Singles Championship in January has led to Scotland's Paul Foster retaining the World Bowls Tour world number one ranking, according the list for the 2011/12 season announced by the WBT.

Scotland's former world number one David Gourlay rolled back the years to see off new world champion Paul Foster in the quarter-finals of the Co-operative Funeralcare Welsh Grand Prix to secure an unexpected place in the semi-finals of the final World Bowls Tour ranking event of the season at the City and County of Swansea Indoor Bowls Club in Swansea.

Scotland's former champion David Gourlay survived a nail-biting encounter in the Co-operative Funeralcare Welsh Grand Prix to claim a place in the quarter-finals of the final World Bowls Tour ranking event of the season at the City and County of Swansea Indoor Bowls Club in Swansea.

Scotland's new world champion Paul Foster was given a stern test in the first round of the Co-operative Funeralcare Welsh Grand Prix before overcoming Australian qualifier Matt Mitchell to claim his place in the last 16 of the final World Bowls Tour ranking event of the season in Swansea.

A week after winning a fourth world title in Norfolk, Scotland's Paul Foster will be bidding to pick up a second World Bowls Tour trophy in Wales when he competes in the 2011 Co-operative Funeralcare Welsh Grand Prix in Swansea.

Stewart Anderson's hopes of reaching the final of the Potters Holidays World Indoor Singles Championship for the second year in a row were dashed today when the young Scot fell at the first hurdle to second-seeded compatriot Paul Foster in the first round of the premier World Bowls Tour event in Norfolk.

A quarter-final berth in The Co-operative Funeralcare Scottish International Open was sufficient to take England’s Greg Harlow back to No1 in the first provisional World Bowls Tour World Rankings for next season, issued by the WBT

England's Robert Paxton became the first qualifier to reach the quarter-finals of The Co-operative Funeralcare Scottish International Open