Hugh Duff (bowls)
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| Nationality | British (Scottish) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | c.1966[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn & indoor bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | West Park Hull BC (outdoors) Auchinleck (indoors) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Hugh Duff is a retired Scottish lawn and indoor bowler. He was a member of the Auchinleck Indoor Bowling Club.[2]
Biography
[edit]Duff won two world indoor singles title in 1988 and nine years later in 1997.[3][4] Duff also partnered fellow Scotsman Paul Foster when winning the 2002 World Indoor Pairs.[3]
Bowling as a member of the West Park, Hull club he finished runner-up to Stephen Farish in the 1992 English national singles.[5] In 1995, he was sent home from the Scottish squad after breaking curfew rules.[6]
After losing in a preliminary match in the 2003 World Indoor Bowls Championship, Duff announced that he would retire from the sport.[7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Anderson wins Potters classic". Great Yarmouth Mercury. 27 January 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
- ^ "Honours".
- ^ a b "Bowls Titles: Players".
- ^ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search".
- ^ "Super Steve". Manchester Evening News. 12 September 1992. Retrieved 19 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Scots sent home in disgrace". The Independent. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
- ^ "BOWLING: Why Duff is giving up bowls. - Free Online Library".
- ^ "Bowls: Disenchanted Duff ready to walk away". 10 January 2003.