Jersey Blackpool The 1955 World Professional Match-play Championship was a professional snooker tournament, the fourth edition of the World Professional Match-play...
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The 1954 World Professional Match-play Championship was a professional snooker tournament held from 5 October 1953 to 6 March 1954 across various locations...
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1952 to 1955. Joe Davis and Walter Donaldson played in the 1955/1956 News of the World Snooker Tournament, that took place from October 1955 to February...
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WGC Match Play (redirect from WGC-Anderson Consulting World Matchplay Championship)
and the British PGA Matchplay Championship which faced a slow decline after the introduction of the British PGA Championship in 1955 (which had a stroke...
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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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stepladder final. From 2005 to 2011, the masters was played using the matchplay style, best of 5 format. From 2013-2015, the top 24 men and women in All-Events...
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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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The winner also received entry to the final stage of the News of the World Matchplay. The winner was the Llandudno professional Fred Collins on 153. Collins...
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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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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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John Pulman (category Winners of the professional snooker world championship)
reached the final of the World Professional Match-play Championship, which was now effectively the world championship, in 1955. He defeated Rex Williams...
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golf club rebellion". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 March 2021. "HSBC World Matchplay". Wentworth Club. Retrieved 11 April 2010. "Golfing gossip". BBC News...
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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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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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purpose-built conference centres in the 21st century. The ballroom hosts the World Matchplay darts tournament, the Blackpool Dance Festival and the Inter Varsity...
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Steve Davis (category World number one snooker players)
1980s, when he reached eight World Snooker Championship finals in nine years, winning six world titles, and held the world number one ranking for seven...
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contended with high finishes – he lost the final of the 1954 British PGA Matchplay Championship, and was perhaps most unlucky that he missed out on a potential...
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Andrew Flintoff (category Cricketers at the 1999 Cricket World Cup)
number of matches in the 2011 PDC World Darts Championship event. He returned to commentary during the 2012 World Matchplay, where he called Michael van Gerwen's...
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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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Bobby Locke (category World Golf Hall of Fame inductees)
Matchplay, Stanley Motors 1,000 Guineas Tournament 1953 SANTA Open, Natal Open 1954 SANTA Open, Transvaal Open, Mills 1,000 Guineas Tournament 1955 Transvaal...
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Timeline of ITV Sport (section 1955-1959)
tournament would be added to the schedule the World Doubles Championship replaced in 1988 with the World Matchplay which would give ITV four tournaments a year...
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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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Alex Higgins (category Winners of the professional snooker world championship)
July 2010) was a Northern Irish professional snooker player and a two-time world champion who is remembered as one of the most iconic figures in the sport's...
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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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Gary Player (category World Golf Hall of Fame inductees)
Sources: 1955 Egyptian Matchplay 1965 World Series of Golf, NTL Challenge Cup (Canada), World Cup of Golf, World Cup of Golf Individual Trophy 1968 World Series...
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Jamie Harvey (category 1955 births)
Priestley. Later that year he also reached the semi-finals of the World Matchplay – losing 9–13 to eventual champion Peter Evison. He never made the...
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James Braid (golfer) (category World Golf Hall of Fame inductees)
1901, 1905, 1906, 1908 and 1910. In addition, Braid won four British PGA Matchplay Championships (1903, 1905, 1907 and 1911), as well as the 1910 French...
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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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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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Tony Knowles (snooker player) (category 1955 births)
England team with Davis and Tony Meo, the 1983 World Team Classic. Tony Knowles was born in Bolton on 13 June 1955. He began playing snooker at the age of 9...
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