Rory McLeod (snooker)

Infobox Snooker player
Name = Rory Mcleod
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Professional = 1991–
High ranking = #44
Current rank = #44
Prize money = £103,655
High break = 145 2007 888.com World championship
Best finish = Last 32 - 3 times
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Rory McLeod is an English professional snooker player, and the only one of Jamaican heritage.Fact|date=January 2008 He has reached the last 32 of three ranking tournaments, most notably the 2005 Grand Prix although this victory against a noticeably ill Paul Hunter was bittersweet. His best results of 2004/2005 were 2 last-48 runs, the Welsh Open run including a victory over Shaun Murphy. He was very unlucky to lose out on a place in the last 16 of the 2007 Grand Prix losing on frame difference in his group to Barry Hawkins.

McLeod was raised in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, where he attended Victoria Junior School, Westfield Boys School and Sir Christopher Hatton School. He first played snooker seriously at the Embassy Club, Wellingborough, in his early teens.

External links

* [http://www.worldsnooker.com/players_head_to_head-8362.htm Profile on worldsnooker.com]