Paul Moor

Paul Moor, (born September 3, 1978) in Beverley, Hull, England, is one of the world's leading Ten-pin Bowlers. He is left-handed and is a full-time bowler.

Early years

Moor first started bowling a the age of 10 when he joined the Saturday morning Junior League at the AMF Bowling Centre in Hull. His parents were league bowlers at the centre which was the main influence for him taking up the sport. He enjoyed plenty of success in his latter years as a junior, winning many national titles. He also teamed up with fellow Hull Bowler, Robert Batty and won a multitude of Doubles Titles including victories at the BTBA Junior Nationals at both Senior and Graduate level. He represented the Junior England Team in 1997 at the "European Youth Team Cup" in Annecy, France where he won a silver medal despite the team having the highest team average in the Championship.

After finishing his time in junior bowling Moor started to bowl more regularly on the Adult circuit in England and won his first English ranking event in 1999 at the AMF World Cup Qualifier, held in Nottingham. Moor went on to represent England in the AMF World Cup in Las Vegas but his lack of international experience did not help and he failed to qualify for the top 24.

Today

Moor is one of the top UK bowlers on the European bowling scene along with Stuart Williams, Dominic Barrett, Kirsten Penny and Zara Glover.

Moor is currently ranked No.2 in Europe, and is a 3-time winner, of the European Bowling Tour. (EBT) cite web | month=April | year=2006 | author=Matchroom Sport | publisher= matchroomsport.com | url=http://www.matchroomsport.com/tenpin1_info.htm|title=2005 PokerMillion.com Weber Cup - Europe v USA Tenpin Challenge |accessdate=2006-04-14] [http://www.etbf.dk/ebt/statistics/winnersmen.htm]

Moor has 25 Perfect Games, a High 3 Games series of 857 and a high 6 Game Series of 1574.

Achievements

World

QubicaAMF World Cup: 4 appearances (1999, 2001, 2004, 2007). Best finish:- 5th (2007)
World Ranking Masters: 3 appearances (2005-2007). Best finish:- 3rd (2007)
World Tenpin Masters: 4 appearances (2005-2008). Runner-up 3 times (2005-2007) Semi-Finalist (2008)
Weber Cup: 3 appearances for Team Europe (2005-2007)
World Bowling Writer’s Bowler Of The Year: 2005

European

Moor has 10 EBT titles to his name, since 2004. This puts Moor top of the EBT all time men's title winners list,
ahead of Belgium's Gery Verbruggen who has 9.
Moor is currently the only bowler who has won 3 EBT titles in 1 season, and has done so twice, in 2005 and 2006.

EBT titles:-
2004 Malta Open Championships
2004 26 Trofeo Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona
2005 Irish Open Championships
2005 Championship Golden Bowl - Trofeo Brunswick
2005 Norwegian Open
2006 3rd Istanbul Bowling Open
2006 28 Trofeo Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona
2006 3rd Oltremare Ebonite Championships
2007 Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournament
2007 Ebonite International Luxembourg Open

Other Titles:-
2004 Championship Golden Bowl, Italy
2008 Malta Open Championships
2008 4th Cockatoos Pafos Open, Cyprus

Domestic

Moor has 24 English National Titles to his name, spanning over 9 years.
Moor has been voted "English Bowler of the Year" 5 times. (2002-2006)

Weber Cup

Moor has played for Team Europe in the annual Weber Cup tournament on 3 occasions (2005-2007).
He will once more play for Team Europe in 2008, which is again being held at the Barnsley Metrodome from the 3rd to the 5th of October.
Moor’s record from 21 matches played (singles and doubles) is won 15, lost 5, with a winning percentage of 71%. Moor has finished on the winning side once (2005).

Miscellaneous

* Moor has earned himself the nickname 'Rodge' due to his surname being close to James Bond '007' Actor, Roger Moore.
* Moor is sponsored by Ebonite/Columbia 300 and RollRite Pro-shop
* Moor was the first bowler to roll a Perfect Game on Live TV in the UK, achieving the historic feat in the first game of the 2006 Weber Cup tournament, against Jason Couch
* Moor's brother, Ian Moor, won the hit TV talent show "Stars in Their Eyes." [http://www.chrishigh.com/chris-de-burgh_ian_moor.htm]

References

External links

* [http://www.paulmoor.co.uk Paul Moor’s official website]
* [http://www.webercup.com/ The Weber Cup Official website]
* [http://www.worldtenpinmasters.com/ The World Tenpin Masters Official Website]
* [http://www.worldtenpinmasters.com/staticPage.asp?strPageName=Paul%20Moor Industry profile of Paul Moor]
* [http://www.ebonite.com/ Ebonite International website]
* [http://www.ebonite.com/eboniteteam/staff_bio.php?PRKey=207 Profile on Ebonite International website]
* [http://www.columbia300.com/home.php Columbia 300 website]
* [http://www.columbia300.com/team/bio.php?id=1046 Profile on Columbia300 website]
* [http://www.rollrite.co.uk Rollrite Pro Shop]
* [http://www.superseries.org/dynamic/topplayers.asp?PID=181 Super Series Profile]
* [http://www.etbf.dk European Tenpin Bowling Federation]
* [http://www.bowlingdigital.de Bowling Digital]
* [http://www.ybtba.org.uk Yorkshire Tenpin Bowling Association]
* [http://www.talktenpin.co.uk Talk Tenpin]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=japZcyMBqds Video clip, 2007 Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournament (Tilburg, Netherlands)]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJkjKzeLmSE Video clip, 2006 Weber Cup 2006 - 300 Game vs Jason Couch]