Cliff Inglis

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Cliff Inglis (born: 1936) is an English darts player from Plymouth, Devon. Inglis's prime years were in the mid 1970s. In 1974, Inglis won the Phonogram World Masters, defeating Harry Keenan 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 November 11, 1975, at the Broomfield Working Men's Club in Devon, England, Cliff 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, despite getting lucky with his first dart, hitting a D20 instead of the triple.