Wills World Indoor Bowls Championship [1] was held at the Coatbridge indoor bowling club, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, from 10 to 14 January 1979.

[1][2][3] The championship was a men's singles event in which David Bryant won his first title defeating Jim Donnelly 21-14 after a final that lasted 23 ends.

[4] The event was organised by the Monklands District Council with two round robin groups of five players.

It was sponsored by tobacco industrialists W.D.

Wills.