Pool legend Jack Halligan will share a few tips with Canowindra players as part of a tour including the Junction Hotel.
Jack has virtually achieved everything possible in the sport of 8-Ball (pool) - Australian Open Individual and Doubles Championships plus 13 state titles are testimony to his
outstanding skills as a cue-man.
Jack has also been captain of five Australian and ten State teams and was a member of our victorious Australian team in our stunning
victory against England in the final of the 1996 World Team Championships in Manchester.
Jack has travelled regularly to England to compete for Australia since 1993 and has produced some outstanding results.
At the 1993 World Titles, Jack completed the week long tournament with an amazing 88.89% winning average to win the "World player of the Year" award.
This achievement is to this day, still, a World Championships record and is widely considered as a record to most unlikely ever be broken.
Winning this award was regarded as a once in a lifetime feat as the opposition players were the very finest from throughout the world.
Amazingly however, after finishing 3rd at the 1994 Titles Jack again topped the averages (82%) in 1995 to win his second "World Player of the Year" title.
On all three occasions Jack was selected in the "World All Stars" team.
In 2000 Jack was awarded the "Australian 2000" Sports Medal, presented by the Prime Minister and Governor General, on behalf of the Queen for outstanding sporting achievement.
In 2001 Jack won the "Player of the Carnival" at the Australian National Titles in Cairns, the 2002 "Queensland Open Singles Championships" and in 2003 became the first inductee into the Australian "Hall of Fame".
Jack has appeared as a player on Australian, American and British television and has also been a guest entertainer on "Hey Hey it's Saturday."
Jack is touring your area soon, taking on all challengers, entertaining with great trick shots, educating, with helpful hints and throwing in humour, with some great jokes and yarns.
Jack Halligan will be appearing at the Junction Hotel on August 7, 2005.