He was the youngest New 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).

[1] Skoglund was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1988 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.