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With the PGA
European Tour season now complete, the Matchroom Golf Management
team easily topped the £1.5 million mark in prize-money after a
highly successful year.
Weighing in
with a total of £1,672,744, the pick of the eight-man squad was
Mansfield-based Greg Owen who had his best year yet on tour, earning
£389,346 and finishing 32nd on the Order of Merit.
Final Positions
( 2000 ranking in brackets )
32 (39) Greg Owen
40 (63) David Lynn
46 (62) John Bickerton
72 (107) Bradley Dredge
77 (59) Jonathan Lomas
101 (180) Stephen Scahill
117 (148) Elliot Boult
137 (209) Shaun P Webster .
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Pool
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Top pool bookmaker
Stan James has posted the odds for the 2001 Mosconi Cup and in light
of their five year run of success in the event, Team USA are the
odds-on favourites at 8/15 with Europe priced at 11/8. American
captain Earl 'the Pearl' Strickland is a 9/2 favourite to take the
most points out of the two six-man sides, with Euro skipper Ralf
Souquet quoted at 6/1.
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Sportel
Monaco 2001
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With a brand
new high-tech stand and our new web-site on display, Matchroom Sport
brought six-times World Snooker Champion Steve Davis and
Phil Taylor, the nine-times World Darts Champion, over to
Monte Carlo for this year's Sportel. The exhibition is a
major event on the TV calendar - a huge marketplace for the buying
and selling of sports programmes worldwide.
Both Phil and
Steve created a lot of attention on the stand and the Matchroom
Sport sales staff had a busy time of it, meeting old friends and
forging new relationships with future clients.
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Tenpin
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Itakura of Japan and Kim Haugen of Norway have won the women's
and men's titles at the 2001 AMF Bowling World Cup in Pattaya, Thailand.
Itakura disposed
of the Philippines Liza del Rosario in two games, 247-224
and 257-224, to become the first Japanese national to ever capture
the Tenpin Bowling World Cup.
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Darts
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Alan
'The Ice Man' Warriner was crowned Paddy Power World Darts
Grand Prix champion in Dublin, with a victory over Roland
Scholten eight sets to two.
Not a
classic by any means but for Alan Warriner, who has been defeated
in world finals, it was a truly sweet moment as he lifted
his first ever PDC world title.
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Golf
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With
the Mauritius Open taking place in December, the following
top-ranked players from the 2001 Europro Tour Order of Merit
will be in the starting line-up at Belle Mare Plage. They
are Mark Sanders (Bristol), Lee Thompson (Bournemouth), Graham
Fox (West Kilbride) and Carl Richardson (Lincoln). For Graham
Fox, it will be his last tournament as part of the Europro
Tour, as earlier in November he came through the extremely
tough qualifying process and will playing his golf on the
main PGA European Tour in 2002..
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Poker
 Six-times
world snooker champion Steve Davis will put aside his cue next
March to compete in the world's biggest poker event - Poker Million.
Fellow professional Jimmy White is also expected to chance his arm,
competing alongside the world's top poker players.
The Ladbrokescasino.com
Poker Million offers a guaranteed top prize of at least £1
million to the winner. Total prize fund on offer will be an expected
£2.1 million, with places strictly limited to 300.
Multi-camera
TV coverage of the final, including under-the-table shots of players'
cards, will capture all the tension and drama as the world's best
players gamble on a fortune. The tournament takes place 28 - 31
March. Click on our Events
section for more details.
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Snooker
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players in the world - Mark Williams, John Higgins and defending League
Champion Ronnie O'Sullivan have all signed up for the 2002 Premier
Snooker League and will be eager to do battle when the League
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