a handicapped competition. With Fred Davis declining to enter the World Matchplay competition because he was taking a "rest" from it, Pulman, who had...
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the last day]". It was the last of eight world snooker titles won by Davis, who chose not to enter the 1957 World Professional Match-play Championship. Match...
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Everton, Clive (October 2019). "Snooker 1945–1957: from boom to bust". Snooker Scene. Birmingham. pp. 19–23. ""World" Snooker Draw". The Glasgow Herald. 4 October...
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1988, Barry Hearn promoted an invitational tournament, called the World Matchplay, for the top twelve players in the provisional rankings. It was held...
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Eric Bristow (category 1957 births)
become a founding member of the Professional Darts Corporation. At the World Matchplay event in Blackpool, Bristow made six appearances without winning a...
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Rod Harrington (category World Matchplay (darts) champions)
professional career including the prestigious Winmau World Masters in 1991 and two successive World Matchplays in 1998 and 1999. At the PDC Awards Dinner held...
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Russ Bray (category 1957 births)
debut at the World Matchplay in Blackpool. He was the caller when Phil Taylor hit the PDC's first-ever televised nine-darter and the world's second ever...
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Match play (redirect from Matchplay)
Championship, one of the majors, used match play for its first 39 editions (1916–1957), but changed to stroke play 66 years ago in 1958. Women's professional golf...
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Larry Butler (darts player) (category World Matchplay (darts) champions)
(born July 21, 1957), nicknamed The Bald Eagle, is an American professional darts player who was the winner of the 1994 PDC World Matchplay Darts Championship...
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The British PGA Matchplay Championship was a match play golf tournament that began in 1903 and ran until 1979. Between 1903 and 1969, the event was sponsored...
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series as the World Professional Match-play Championship, whilst snooker statistician Chris Turner views them, and the later World Matchplay events as distinct...
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Fred Davis (snooker player) (category World champions in English billiards)
original on 29 November 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2020. Turner, Chris. "World Matchplay". cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived...
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and Dave Thomas. In contrast, in both 1957 and 1961, any British or Irish winner of the News of the World Matchplay received an automatic place in the team...
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Nick Faldo (category 1957 births)
the Johnnie Walker World Golf Championship, and the World Matchplay, as well as his team successes in the Dunhill Cup, the World Cup of Golf, and the...
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Jack Burke Jr. (category World Golf Hall of Fame inductees)
Championship the format had been changed with 128 players competing in a pure matchplay format, players qualifying through a mixture of exemptions and sectional...
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Ray Reardon (category World number one snooker players)
Birmingham: Everton's News Agency. June 1976. p. 24. Turner, Chris (2008). "World Matchplay". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 28...
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John Pulman (category Winners of the professional snooker world championship)
professional snooker player who was the World Snooker Champion from 1957 to 1968. He first won the title at the 1957 Championship and retained it across seven...
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List of snooker tournaments (redirect from Snooker world ranking tournaments)
Masters 1988/89–1990/91 Invitational England (Café Royal, London) World Matchplay 1988/89–1992/93 (Matchroom event) Invitational England 1988/89–1990/91...
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Gary Player (category World Golf Hall of Fame inductees)
Egyptian Matchplay 1965 World Series of Golf, NTL Challenge Cup (Canada), World Cup of Golf, World Cup of Golf Individual Trophy 1968 World Series of...
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Denis Ovens (category 1957 births)
Denis Ovens (born 1 July 1957) is an English former professional darts player. He is nicknamed "The Heat" and is now based in Stevenage. Ovens is regarded...
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2013. Retrieved 8 July 2013. Corrigan, James (22 February 2014). "WGC Matchplay 2014: Graeme McDowell's brave charge ends with defeat to young Frenchman...
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Rex Williams (category World champions in English billiards)
Williams and Fred Davis played a 51 match series that was billed as the World Open Matchplay Snooker Challenge, even though no other entries were solicited.: 41 ...
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Harry Vardon (category World Golf Hall of Fame inductees)
Montrose Open (Sco) 1906 Musselburgh Tournament (Sco), News of the World Matchplay Southern Section qualifying at Stanmore (tie with James Braid) (Eng)...
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also the northern section qualifying competition for the News of the World Matchplay. Soon afterwards he finished tied for 4th place in the Daily Mirror...
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Seve Ballesteros (category 1957 births)
pronunciation: [seβeˈɾjano βaʎesˈteɾos]; 9 April 1957 – 7 May 2011) was a Spanish professional golfer, a World No. 1 who was one of the sport's leading figures...
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the North and South Open as two of golf's "majors", and the British PGA Matchplay Championship was as important to British and Commonwealth professionals...
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He was the first Indian golfer to break into the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking in October 2006. The Government of India awarded him the civilian...
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Bobby Locke (category World Golf Hall of Fame inductees)
Professional, South African Open, Grey Slax £1,000 Tournament 1951 Stag £1,000 Matchplay, Stanley Motors 1,000 Guineas Tournament, Transvaal Open, East Rand Open...
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Steve Davis (category 1957 births)
Steve Davis OBE (born 22 August 1957) is an English retired professional snooker player who is currently a commentator, DJ, electronic musician and author...
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Stephen Hendry (category World number one snooker players)
through the snooker world rankings, reaching number four in the world by the end of his third professional season. He won his first World Snooker Championship...
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