He was second in the North East Valley four with Stephen O'Driscoll, Shaun Scott and Terry Scott that beat Robbie Thomson, John Cross, Mark Cowan and Andrew McCallum (Fairfield) 19-4.
Jim Scott (61), the Bowls New Zealand co-ordinator for zone six (South Canterbury to Southland), now ranks fifth on the Bowls Dunedin table behind Terry Scott (North East Valley) 33, Ken Walker (Fairfield) 30, Stewart McConnell (Kaikorai) 21 and Mike Kernaghan (Kaikorai) 21.
Scott has now added a third bar to his gold star.
"It was good to get to 20 titles and a thrill to reach this milestone but I don't want to stop there," he said.
"Dunedin is a strong centre and it's in my nature to keep doing as well as I can."
Scott, who joined the Dunedin centre in 1991, has also won titles in other centres: two in Central Otago, one each on the West Coast and in Hawkes Bay and four in North Otago.
He was living in Oamaru when he won his first Bowls Dunedin title in the Easter pairs with his brother, Terry, in 1989.
"You have got to have little goals in sport," Scott said. "It was my target to get to 20."
Jim Scott represented New Zealand for a decade from 1980 and 1989 and won medals in major international events.
He was third in the New Zealand four that won the silver medal at the Brisbane Commonwealth Games in 1982.
Two years later, he was second in the four that won the silver medal at the World Bowls in Aberdeen and was in the middle of the bronze medal-winning triples team.
Scott concedes his days on the international arena are over, but he retains his passion for bowls on the local and national scene.
He started competitive bowls at Cromwell in 1966 and can still foot it at the national level, as he proved by being runner-up in the fours at the New Zealand championships at Dunedin last month.
It was the same Scott Family team that added to their Bowls Dunedin account at the weekend. Skip Terry Scott has won 33 titles, new international Shaun Scott eight and judge Stephen O'Driscoll six.
Sue Hodges (Outram) won her ninth Bowls Dunedin title when she beat Carolyn Crawford (St Clair) 21-15 in the women's open singles.
Crawford led 7-3 after eight ends but Hodges drew level at 12-all after eleven ends and the scores were still level, 14-all, after 13 of the 18 ends. Hodges clinched the game by scoring threes on the next two ends.
It was the third title for Hodges this season. She had already won the open triples and the open fours and was third in the open pairs.
