Doug Mountjoy Doug Mountjoy Doug Mountjoy (born 8 June 1942) is a retired Welsh snooker player. He was a mainstay of the world's top 16 during the late 1970s and 1980s, and won the Masters in 1977, the UK Championship in 1978 and the Irish Masters in 1979. He reached the 1981 World Championship final, where he lost to Steve Davis. Mountjoy enjoyed an Indian summer in his 40s, winning back-to-back ranking events (the UK Championship and The Classic) during the 1988/89 season. His world ranking peaked at #5 in the 1990/91 season. In later years he was the coach to the
David Taylor (snooker player) exhibition match and also recorded seven centuries in seven frames in a witnessed practice session. He was one of the two commentators during Steve Davis' first televised maximum break. After his career wound down he ran an award-winning hotel. He currently runs Ash Farm Country Guest House with his wife in Little Bollington near Altrincham in Cheshire. He was the first snooker player to pot all balls in the final round of BBC snooker gameshow "Big Break". David Taylor (snooker player) David Taylor (born 29 July 1943) is a retired English professional snooker player. He won the World and English