- Cliff Inglis
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Cliff Inglis Personal information Nickname Ticker Born 1935
EnglandDied 2001 Home town Plymouth
EnglandOrganisation (see split in darts) BDO 1974 to 1981 Current world ranking N/A BDO majors - best performances World Masters Winner 1974 Cliff "Ticker" Inglis (1935–2001) was an English darts player from Plymouth, Devon. Inglis' prime years were in the mid-1970s.
In 1974, Inglis won the inaugural Phonogram World Masters, defeating Harry Heenan 3-2 in the final. The following year he was a Unicorn World Darts Championship finalist, and was runner-up in the Indoor League - which was televised by Yorkshire TV - to Conrad Daniels. For two successive years in the mid 1970s, he won the Man of the Match award playing for England in the Home Internationals.
On 11 November 1975 at the Broomfield Working Men's Club in Devon, England, Inglis entered the Guinness Book of Records by throwing a magnificent 19-dart 1001 game, smashing all previous records to date: 160-180-140-180-121-180-40. Cliff averaged an unbelievable 52.68 points per dart (158.05 three-dart average), despite getting lucky with his first dart, hitting a D20 instead of the triple.
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