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. The tournament featured the best 60 players from around the world. 24 winners of major tournaments from the last year and an English qualifying round consisting of 36 players (2 from each county). The 36 County players played down to a last 8 before joining the 24 invitees to make the first round. The final was an all Welsh affair between

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and David "Rocky" Jones with Evans winning his only World Masters title. This tournament is notable for being the first major tournament entered by a then 18 year old

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, who went on to dominate the game in the 1980s. Bristow failed to make the last 32 after losing in the England qualifiers earlier in the day.

Prize money

Total Prize fund was £2000 *Champion £1000 and a HiFi *Runner-up £500 *Third £200 *4th £100 *Quarter finalists £50

Qualifiers

International Qualifiers # Maurice Maenhout #

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# Preben Schultz #

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# Jim McQuillan # Garter Goodridge # William Greenhough # Neil Campbell-Adams # David Baille # Harry Heenan - 1974 World Master Runner-Up # Jack North - N.D.A.G.B. Champion #

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Champion #

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Champion # David "Rocky" Jones - Unicorn Pairs Champion # Ray Phillips - Unicorn Pairs Champion #

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- 1974 World Master English Qualifiers # Lee Griffith - Sussex # Brian Smart - Sussex # Terry Harrison - Cleveland # Jack Brown - Cleveland # Barry Caldicott - Warwickshire # Paul Tunley - Warwickshire # Dennis Kilbourne - Northants # Wally Burton - Northants # Cyril Hayes - West # Alf Jefferies - West # Lionel Johns - Cornwall # Ron Burley - Cornwall #

- London # Peter Chapman - London # Tony Johnson - Surrey # George Lee - Surrey # Lew Walker - Kent # Ian Glennie - Kent # Nobby Clark- Lancashire # Bill Leonard - Lancashire # Peter Horrobin - Cheshire #

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- Cheshire # Des Stabb - Devon #

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- Devon # Peter Spurdle - Somerset # Les Cornall - Somerset # Roy Williams - Thames Valley # Sam Sherwood - Thames Valley # Ron Miller - Herts # Maurice Young - Herts #

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- Bedfordshire # Chris Garner - Bedfordshire # Alex Hancock - Staffordshire # Bob Lightfood - Staffordshire # John Craine - Isle Of Man # Dougy Caley - Isle of Man

The results

References

*All results and references taken from World Masters Programme. {{World Masters (darts) World Masters (darts)

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