Terry Griffiths

For the Australian politician, see Terry Griffiths (politician).

Terry Griffiths
OBE

Griffiths in 1991
Born	(1947-10-16)16 October 1947 Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Died	1 December 2024(2024-12-01) (aged 77) Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Sport country	Wales
Nickname	Griff
Professional	1978–1997
Highest ranking	3 (1981/82)
Tournament wins
Ranking	1
World Champion	1979

Terence Martin Griffiths OBE (16 October 1947 – 1 December 2024) was a Welsh professional snooker player, coach and pundit. After winning several amateur titles, including the Welsh Amateur Championship in 1975 and back-to-back English Amateur Championships in 1977 and 1978, Griffiths turned professional in June 1978 at the age of 30.

In his second professional tournament, he qualified for the 1979 World Snooker Championship. He reached the final of the event where he defeated Dennis Taylor by 24 frames to 16. This was only the second time a qualifier had won the World Snooker Championship, after Alex Higgins in 1972; only Shaun Murphy in 2005 has since emulated the achievement. In 1988, Griffiths again reached the final of the competition. He was tied with Steve Davis, 8–8, but lost the match 11–18.

Griffiths reached at least the quarter-finals of the World Championship for nine consecutive years, from 1984 to 1992. He also won the Masters in 1980 and the UK Championship in 1982, completing snooker's Triple Crown. Griffiths was runner-up at the Masters three times and reached the final of the 1989 European Open, where he lost the deciding frame to John Parrott.

Although he also won several other tournaments, Griffiths's determination to match his rival Davis led to changes in technique which commentators said cost him his natural flair for playing. He retired from the professional tour in 1996 to become the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association's director of coaching. During his coaching career, he worked with leading players including Stephen Hendry, Mark Williams and Ding Junhui. Griffiths died in December 2024, aged 77.

Early years

Griffiths was born in Llanelli on 16 October 1947. He was admitted to a grammar school but was expelled for truancy and became a student at a secondary modern school, where he played rugby union with future Welsh national-team members Phil Bennett and Derek Quinnell. Griffiths began playing snooker when he was 14. After leaving school, he worked in a coal mine and became the youngest winner of the Llanelli and District snooker championship at age 16. Griffiths subsequently began working as a bus conductor, a job which gave him more time to practise. He later worked as a postman and as an insurance salesman.

At age 17, Griffiths won the West Wales snooker championship. When he was 18 and working as a bus conductor, he met Annette, and the couple married in 1969. They had their first son, Wayne, a year-and-a-half after their wedding, and their other son, Darren, two years later. Griffiths compiled his first century break at age 24, the first year he entered the Welsh Amateur Championship (where he was runner-up). Griffiths played in the amateur home internationals fourteen times, winning twelve of his matches; after winning the Welsh Amateur Championship in 1975, he reached the quarter-finals of the 1976 World Amateur Snooker Championship. He won the English Amateur Championship in 1977 by defeating Sid Hood 13–3 in the final, and retained the title in 1978 by winning 13–6 against Joe Johnson.

Professional career

1978–1982

Griffiths became a professional player on 1 June 1978 after he was accepted as a member by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) at its meeting during the 1978 World Snooker Championship. Anticipating his acceptance as a professional, Snooker Scene said in May 1978 that "his power screws and long potting are second to no one's ... it will not be in the least surprising, if very soon he becomes a serious challenger for snooker's top professional titles."

In his first professional match, qualifying for the 1978 UK Championship, Griffiths lost 8–9 to Rex Williams after leading 8–2. Williams took a 2–1 lead; Griffiths won the next seven frames, and Williams took the following seven. In the deciding frame, Griffiths rushed when potting the pink ball and went in-off, a foul shot. Williams later potted the pink for the victory. After qualifying for the 1979 World Championship by eliminating Bernard Bennett 9–2 (from 0–2 behind) and Jim Meadowcroft 9–6 (from 6–6), Griffiths defeated the previous year's runner-up Perrie Mans 13–8 in the first round and Alex Higgins 13–12 in the quarter-finals. After beating Eddie Charlton 19–17 in a long semi-final which finished at 1:40 am, Griffiths told interviewer David Vine: "I'm in the final now, you know." In the final, he faced Dennis Taylor, who had been a professional since 1973 and was also playing in his first World Championship final. The match was close for the first four of the six sessions and level at 15–15 before Griffiths took a 17–16 lead and won 24–16, becoming world champion at his first attempt in his second tournament as a professional. The result saw him placed eighth in the Snooker world rankings 1979/1980. He was the second player to win the championship after playing in qualifying competition (after Higgins in 1972), and the first to win it at the Crucible in Sheffield, the venue for the championship since 1977, as a qualifier. By 2021, the only other player to achieve this was Shaun Murphy in 2005.

Griffiths reached the final of the 1979 Canadian Open the following season, losing 16–17 to Cliff Thorburn, and was part of the Welsh team that won the inaugural World Cup of snooker; Ray Reardon, Doug Mountjoy and Griffiths defeated England 14–3 in the final. At the end of 1979, Griffiths faced John Virgo in the UK Championship final. Virgo had been penalised two frames for arriving late to a session (not realising that the start time had been moved up as requested by the television broadcasters), which reduced his lead to 9–11. When the scores were 11–11, Griffiths offered to split the prize money. Virgo declined and went on to win the match, 14–13.

Griffiths was named the BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year for 1979, and was the subject for a This Is Your Life episode the following year. He won the 1980 Masters, defeating Alex Higgins 9–5 in front of 2,323 spectators (a record crowd for a UK snooker event) at the Wembley Conference Centre after compiling a break of 131 to win the decisive frame. It was his first Masters appearance and his only Masters title, although he was runner-up at the event three times in the subsequent four years. He also won the 1980 Irish Masters, defeating Mountjoy 10–9 in the final.

Defending champion at the 1980 World Championship, Griffiths lost the first seven frames against Davis in his first match and ended the first session trailing 1–7. Davis won the opening frame of the second session to extend his lead to 8–1, and had a seven-frame lead again at 10–3 before Griffiths won three frames to end the session 6–10 behind. In the third session, Griffiths won the first four frames to level at 10–10; Davis won the next three for a 13–10 victory, which included a 116 break in the 22nd frame. With this first-round defeat, Griffiths became the first victim of the so-called "Crucible curse", a term later adopted to describe the failure of any first-time champion to defend their title at the venue. He moved up three places in the annual rankings, to fifth for 1980/1981.

Griffiths and his Wales teammates retained the 1980 World Challenge Cup, and he again won the Irish Masters in 1981 before losing to eventual winner Davis in the quarter-finals of the 1981 World Snooker Championship. Griffiths lost 3–16 to Davis in the 1981 UK Championship final, the first of five finals in consecutive events contested by the pair. Griffiths won two of the five, winning 9–8 on the final black in the deciding frame of the 1982 Classic after Davis had recovered from 3–8 to 8–8. He also won the 1982 Irish Masters, his third consecutive title at the event, defeating Davis 9–5 in the final. After Tony Knowles's surprise 10–1 win over Davis in the first round of the 1982 World Championship, Griffiths became the bookmakers' favourite for the title. However, Griffiths also exited in the first round, losing 6–10 to Willie Thorne. Despite this, he advanced again in the rankings, achieving third place, which would be his highest-ever ranking, in 1981/1982. He won the 1982 UK Championship at the end of the year, defeating Alex Higgins 16–15 in the final.

1983–1989

Griffiths won several further invitational events, including Pot Black in 1984, and the 1984 Malaysian Masters (where he topped a round-robin group in which Tony Meo was the runner-up). He also gained titles at the 1984 Singapore Masters, where he also topped a round-robin group in which Davis was the runner-up; and the 1985 Hong Kong Masters, where he defeated Davis 4–2. The 1985–86 snooker season saw Griffiths win the Welsh Professional Championship for the first time after defeating Mountjoy 9–4. He also won the 1986 Belgian Classic, where he saw off Kirk Stevens 9–7 in the final.

The Terry Griffiths Matchroom in Llanelli

His ranking had dropped to fourteenth in 1982/1983 when his 1979 points were no longer counted towards his total, which at the time was calculated purely on the basis of results of the preceding three world championships. He improved to ninth rank in 1983/1984, and was eighth for both 1984/1985 and 1985/1986 before falling to tenth for 1986/1987.

Two months before the 1986 World Snooker Championship, Griffiths began working with coach Frank Callan. After eliminating Higgins 13–12 in the last 16, he praised Callan for helping his game: "I tried to do the right things myself for three years ... Frank has knitted it all together for me. I didn't think anyone knew that much about snooker." He led eventual winner Johnson 12–9 in their quarter-final match, but Johnson won four consecutive frames, two with century breaks, for a 13–12 victory. He ended the season by winning the 1986 Pontins Professional, defeating Willie Thorne in the final.

Griffiths was the only player to reach the televised stages of each ranking tournament in the 1986–87 season, but did not reach the semi-finals in any of them. At the end of the season, he moved up four places in the rankings to sixth. He won the Welsh Professional Championship again in 1986, defeating Doug Mountjoy 9–3. In 1987, Griffiths opened a billiard hall: the Terry Griffiths Matchroom in Llanelli. The next year, he won the 1988 Welsh Professional Championship final 9–3 against Wayne Jones.

At the 1988 World Snooker Championship, Griffiths defeated Steve Longworth, Willie Thorne, Neal Foulds and Jimmy White to reach his second world final, but lost 11–18 to defending champion Davis. The players had been level at 8–8 after the first of two days' play in the final, and Terry Smith of The Daily Telegraph said after the match: "Griffiths knows he produced his best snooker since he became world champion in 1979, and still lost." The 1989 European Open was his only final the following season. Although Griffiths won four of the first five frames, John Parrott tied the scores at 4–4 after the first session. Griffiths later led 8–7, but Parrott won the match (and his first major title) 9–8.

1989–1997

In the 1989–90 snooker season, Griffiths reached the semi-finals of the 1989 Asian Open and the 1989 UK Championship and the quarter-finals of the 1990 World Snooker Championship. His only final was in the 1989 Scottish Masters, where he lost 1–10 to Stephen Hendry. Griffiths dropped one place in the world rankings, to sixth, at the end of the season. The following season, he was again runner-up to Hendry at the Scottish Masters; he had little success in other ranking events, however, and fell from sixth to eleventh place at the season's end.

Griffiths moved back into sixth place after the 1991–92 season, during which he reached three ranking semi-finals, including that of the 1992 World Championship, where he scored victories over Bob Chaperon, Neal Foulds and Peter Ebdon before losing to Stephen Hendry. His best performance at a ranking tournament the following season was the semi-final of the 1992 Grand Prix, which he lost 6–9 to Ken Doherty; his best showings at ranking tournaments over the next three seasons were a single quarter-final appearance in each.

At the 1996 World Snooker Championship, Griffiths eliminated Jamie Burnett 10–9 in a first-round final-frame decider after trailing 0–6 and 5–9. In the second round, he lost to old rival Steve Davis (whom he never defeated at the Crucible in six attempts) and announced his retirement from the game to become the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association's Director of Coaching. Griffiths retired at 23rd in the rankings (the first year since his debut season that he had not been in the top 16). Clive Everton wrote that Griffiths was "the only player to retire when his standard was still in touch with the circuit's top players."

At the 1997 World Championship, Griffiths came out of retirement, and won his qualifying match against Alfie Burden 10–4, to play in the main tournament at the Crucible one last time. He led fellow countryman Mark Williams 9–8, but lost the next two frames, each on the final black ball, and was eliminated 9–10. During his professional career, he played a total of 999 frames at the Crucible.

In their book, Masters of the Baize, Luke Williams and Paul Gadsby wrote that Griffiths may have won more tournaments if he had not adjusted his playing technique to challenge Davis. Gordon Burn reported in his 1986 book, Pocket Money, that Ray Reardon felt that Griffiths began to decline as a player after he signed a management contract with Barry Hearn (Davis's manager) at the end of the 1981–82 season and changes Griffiths made to his stance and cueing cost him his "natural flair". Burn wrote that after Hearn became Griffiths's manager, "In the first year, Hearn tripled Griffiths's income and halved his work." He quotes Griffiths: "I just found it difficult to accept that there was a better player than me in the world", but "I wasn't even getting at Steve Davis, because other players were beating me first." Everton wrote about Griffiths's change of technique, "While he acquired an encyclopaedic technical knowledge in the process and maintained an admirable consistency, he could never quite recapture the flair and inspiration that had brought him the world title." As winner of the World Championship, UK Championship and Masters during his career, Griffiths achieved the snooker Triple Crown.

Later career, retirement and death

Griffiths resigned as the WPBSA director of coaching in 1998, describing the association as "a hopeless set-up with no one giving the staff any direction at all." He coached a number of top players, including Mark Allen, Ali Carter, Ding Junhui, Marco Fu, Barry Hawkins, Stephen Hendry, Stephen Maguire, Joe Perry and Mark Williams. Griffiths said about his coaching that "it used to be a lot of technical stuff years ago – probably 90% on the technical side. Now it's the other way about, perhaps 80–20% on the mental side." He was the director of coaching at the South West Snooker Academy, and a snooker commentator for the BBC.

Griffiths received an OBE appointment in 2007 for his "services to snooker". He launched "SQ", a handicapping system for snooker, in 2021. His son, Wayne Griffiths, is head snooker coach at the Hong Kong Sports Institute and has coached three-time women's world champion Ng On-yee. During his career, Griffiths won over a million pounds in prize money.

In 2024, his family announced that he had dementia. He died in his hometown of Llanelli, on 1 December 2024, at the age of 77.

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament	1978/ 79	1979/ 80	1980/ 81	1981/ 82	1982/ 83	1983/ 84	1984/ 85	1985/ 86	1986/ 87	1987/ 88	1988/ 89	1989/ 90	1990/ 91	1991/ 92	1992/ 93	1993/ 94	1994/ 95	1995/ 96	1996/ 97	Ref.
Ranking		8	5	3	14	9	8	8	10	6	5	5	6	11	6	8	14	15	23
Ranking tournaments
Asian Classic	Tournament Not Held										NR	A	QF	2R	QF	2R	2R	QF	A
Grand Prix	Tournament Not Held				QF	3R	1R	QF	3R	3R	QF	1R	2R	QF	SF	1R	2R	1R	A
UK Championship	Non-Ranking Event						1R	QF	3R	QF	SF	SF	2R	3R	1R	QF	3R	2R	A
German Open	Tournament Not Held																	1R	A
Welsh Open	Tournament Not Held													3R	2R	1R	1R	2R	A
International Open	Not Held			NR	QF	SF	2R	3R	3R	2R	1R	2R	Not Held		3R	3R	3R	1R	A
European Open	Tournament Not Held										F	1R	2R	SF	2R	1R	QF	2R	A
Thailand Open	Tournament Not Held					Non-Ranking Event				Not Held		SF	1R	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	A
British Open	NH	Non-Ranking Event					2R	QF	3R	2R	1R	2R	3R	QF	1R	1R	1R	1R	A
World Championship	W	2R	QF	1R	2R	QF	QF	QF	QF	F	QF	QF	QF	SF	2R	2R	2R	2R	1R
Non-ranking tournaments
Scottish Masters	Not Held			A	SF	QF	QF	A	A	F	NH	F	F	A	1R	A	A	A	A
Charity Challenge	Tournament Not Held																SF	1R	A
The Masters	A	W	F	F	QF	F	SF	QF	1R	QF	QF	1R	SF	1R	1R	1R	QF	WR	A
Seniors Pot Black	Tournament Not Held																		F
Irish Masters	A	W	W	W	SF	F	1R	1R	SF	SF	QF	SF	1R	1R	1R	1R	A	A	A
Pontins Professional	A	QF	W	SF	RR	QF	W	W	SF	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A
Matchroom League	Tournament Not Held					A	Not Held		RR	RR	RR	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A
Former ranking tournaments
Canadian Masters	Non-Ranking			Tournament Not Held				Non-Ranking			QF	Tournament Not Held
Hong Kong Open|	NH	Ranking Event									NH	2R	Tournament Not Held				Ranking		NH
Classic	NH	Non-Ranking Event				QF	QF	1R	QF	QF	3R	1R	1R	3R	Tournament Not Held
Strachan Open	Tournament Not Held													2R	MR	NR	Not Held
Former non-ranking tournaments
Champion of Champions	A	NH	RR	Tournament Not Held
International Open	Not Held			QF	Ranking Event								Not Held		Ranking Event
Northern Ireland Classic	Not Held			SF	Tournament Not Held
Classic	NH	SF	QF	W	1R	Ranking Event									Tournament Not Held
Tolly Cobbold Classic	A	SF	A	A	F	A	Ranking Event
UK Championship	1R	F	SF	F	W	SF	Ranking Event
British Open	NH	RR	RR	F	2R	2R	Ranking Event
Singapore Masters	Tournament Not Held						W	F	Tournament Not Held
KitKat Break for World Champions	Tournament Not Held							SF	Tournament Not Held
Belgian Classic	Tournament Not Held							W	Tournament Not Held
Australian Masters	NH	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	SF	A	NH	R	Tournament Not Held				A	A	NH
Malaysian Masters	Tournament Not Held						W	NH	QF	Tournament Not Held									A
China Masters	Tournament Not Held							A	F	Tournament Not Held									A
Tokyo Masters	Tournament Not Held									F	Tournament Not Held
Canadian Masters	A	F	F	Tournament Not Held				QF	A	QF	R	Tournament Not Held
Asian Classic	Tournament Not Held										QF	Ranking Event
Matchroom Professional Championship	Tournament Not Held								SF	1R	QF	Tournament Not Held
London Masters	Tournament Not Held										QF	A	A	Tournament Not Held
International League	Tournament Not Held											RR	Tournament Not Held
Norwich Union Grand Prix	Tournament Not Held										SF	A	QF	Tournament Not Held
European Grand Masters	Tournament Not Held												QF	Tournament Not Held
World Masters	Tournament Not Held												QF	Tournament Not Held
Welsh Professional Championship	NH	SF	SF	F	SF	SF	W	W	SF	W	F	QF	QF	Tournament Not Held
Thailand Masters	Tournament Not Held					SF	F	F	F	Not Held		Ranking		2R	Ranking Event
Hong Kong Challenge	Tournament Not Held					F	QF	W	SF	QF	QF	NH	1R	1R	Tournament Not Held
Indian Challenge	Tournament Not Held													1R	Tournament Not Held
World Seniors Championship	Tournament Not Held													SF	Tournament Not Held
Belgian Challenge	Tournament Not Held													QF	Tournament Not Held
Kent Classic	Tournament Not Held								QF	A	A	A	A	NH	SF	Tournament Not Held
Belgian Masters	Tournament Not Held												QF	A	1R	Not Held		A	NH
World Matchplay	Tournament Not Held											QF	QF	SF	QF	1R	Not Held
Pot Black	A	RR	A	A	A	W	QF	1R	Tournament Not Held					1R	??	QF	Not Held

Performance Table Legend
#R	lost in the early rounds of the tournament (WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)	QF	lost in the quarter-finals	SF	lost in the semi-finals
F	lost in the final	W	won the tournament	A	did not participate in the tournament
??	no reliable source available

NH / Not Held				means an event was not held.
NR / Non-Ranking Event				means an event is/was no longer a ranking event.
R / Ranking Event				means an event is/was a ranking event.

Career finals

Sources for the ranking and non-ranking final results can be found in the Performance timeline section above.

Ranking finals: 3 (1 title)

Legend
World Championship (1–1)
Other (0–1)

Ranking tournament finals contested by Terry Griffiths

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score
Winner	1.	1979	World Championship	Dennis Taylor (NIR)	24–16
Runner-up	1.	1988	World Championship	Steve Davis (ENG)	11–18
Runner-up	2.	1989	European Open	John Parrott (ENG)	8–9

Non-ranking finals: 40 (17 titles)

Legend
UK Championship (1–2)
The Masters (1–3)
Other (15–19)

Non-ranking tournament finals contested by Terry Griffiths

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	1979	Canadian Open	Cliff Thorburn (CAN)	16–17
Runner-up	2.	1979	UK Championship	John Virgo (ENG)	13–14
Winner	1.	1980	The Masters	Alex Higgins (NIR)	9–5
Winner	2.	1980	Irish Masters	Doug Mountjoy (WAL)	10–9
Runner-up	3.	1980	Canadian Open (2)	Cliff Thorburn (CAN)	10–17
Runner-up	4.	1981	The Masters	Alex Higgins (NIR)	6–9
Winner	3.	1981	Irish Masters (2)	Ray Reardon (WAL)	9–7
Winner	4.	1981	Pontins Professional	Willie Thorne (ENG)	9–8
Runner-up	5.	1981	UK Championship (2)	Steve Davis (ENG)	3–16
Winner	5.	1982	The Classic	Steve Davis (ENG)	9–8
Runner-up	6.	1982	The Masters (2)	Steve Davis (ENG)	5–9
Runner-up	7.	1982	Welsh Professional Championship	Doug Mountjoy (WAL)	8–9
Runner-up	8.	1982	International Masters	Steve Davis (ENG)	7–9
Winner	6.	1982	Irish Masters (3)	Steve Davis (ENG)	9–5
Winner	7.	1982	UK Championship	Alex Higgins (NIR)	16–15
Runner-up	9.	1983	Tolly Cobbold Classic	Steve Davis (ENG)	5–7
Runner-up	10.	1983	Hong Kong Masters	Doug Mountjoy (WAL)	3–4
Winner	8.	1984	Pot Black	John Spencer (ENG)	2–1
Runner-up	11.	1984	The Masters (3)	Jimmy White (ENG)	5–9
Runner-up	12.	1984	Irish Masters	Steve Davis (ENG)	1–9
Runner-up	13.	1984	Thailand Masters	Jimmy White (ENG)	3–4
Winner	9.	1984	Malaysian Masters	Tony Meo (ENG)	Round-Robin
Winner	10.	1984	Singapore Masters	Steve Davis (ENG)	Round-Robin
Winner	11.	1985	Welsh Professional Championship	Doug Mountjoy (WAL)	9–4
Winner	12.	1985	Pontins Professional (2)	John Spencer (ENG)	9–7
Winner	13.	1985	Hong Kong Masters	Steve Davis (ENG)	4–2
Runner-up	14.	1985	Thailand Masters (2)	Dennis Taylor (NIR)	0–4
Runner-up	15.	1985	Singapore Masters	Steve Davis (ENG)	2–4
Winner	14.	1986	Belgian Classic	Kirk Stevens (CAN)	9–7
Winner	15.	1986	Welsh Professional Championship (2)	Doug Mountjoy (WAL)	9–3
Winner	16.	1986	Pontins Professional (3)	Willie Thorne (ENG)	9–6
Runner-up	16.	1986	Thailand Masters (3)	James Wattana (THA)	1–2
Runner-up	17.	1986	China Masters	Steve Davis (ENG)	0–3
Runner-up	18.	1987	Tokyo Masters	Dennis Taylor (NIR)	3–6
Runner-up	19.	1987	Scottish Masters	Joe Johnson (ENG)	7–9
Winner	17.	1988	Welsh Professional Championship (3)	Wayne Jones (WAL)	9–3
Runner-up	20.	1989	Welsh Professional Championship (2)	Doug Mountjoy (WAL)	6–9
Runner-up	21.	1989	Scottish Masters (2)	Stephen Hendry (SCO)	1–10
Runner-up	22.	1990	Scottish Masters (3)	Stephen Hendry (SCO)	6–10
Runner-up	23.	1997	Seniors Pot Black	Joe Johnson (ENG)	0–2

Team finals: 5 (2 titles)

Team finals contested by Terry Griffiths

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Team/partner	Opponent(s) in the final	Score	Ref.
Winner	1.	1979	World Challenge Cup	Wales	England	14–3
Winner	2.	1980	World Challenge Cup (2)	Wales	Canada	8–5
Runner-up	1.	1981	World Team Classic	Wales	England	3–4
Runner-up	2.	1982	World Doubles Championship	Doug Mountjoy (WAL)	Steve Davis (ENG) and Tony Meo (ENG)	2–13
Runner-up	3.	1983	World Team Classic (2)	Wales	England	2–4

Pro-am finals: 2 (1 title)

Pro-am finals contested by Terry Griffiths

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score	Ref.
Runner-up	1.	1977	Pontins Spring Open	Alex Higgins (NIR)	4–7
Winner	1.	1983	Pontins Spring Open	Ray Reardon (WAL)	7–3

Amateur finals: 4 (3 titles)

Amateur finals contested by Terry Griffiths

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score	Ref.
Runner-up	1.	1972	Welsh Amateur Championship	Geoff Thomas (WAL)	2–6
Winner	1.	1975	Welsh Amateur Championship	Geoff Thomas (WAL)	8–7
Winner	2.	1977	English Amateur Championship	Sid Hood (ENG)	13–3
Winner	3.	1978	English Amateur Championship (2)	Joe Johnson (ENG)	13–6

Publications

Year	Title	Authors	Publisher	ISBN
1981	Championship Snooker	Terry Griffiths with Clive Everton	Queen Anne Press, London	ISBN 0362005435
1984	Complete Snooker	Terry Griffiths with Julian Worthington	Pelham, London	ISBN 0720715024
1989	Griff : the Autobiography of Terry Griffiths	Terry Griffiths with Julian Worthington	Pelham, London	ISBN 0720718864

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• Perrin, Reg, ed. (1984) [1975]. Pot Black. London: BBC Books. ISBN 0563202939.
• Smith, Terry, ed. (1987). Benson and Hedges Snooker Year (4th ed.). Aylesbury: Pelham Books. ISBN 978-0-7207-1797-6.
• Smith, Terry, ed. (1989). Benson and Hedges Snooker Year (6th ed.). Aylesbury: Pelham Books. ISBN 978-0-7207-1944-4.
• Smith, Terry, ed. (1990). Benson and Hedges Snooker Year (7th ed.). Aylesbury: Pelham Books. ISBN 978-0-7207-1955-0.
• Smith, Terry, ed. (1991). Benson and Hedges Snooker Year (8th ed.). London: Pelham Books. ISBN 978-0-7207-1983-3.
• Williams, Luke; Gadsby, Paul (2005). Masters of the Baize. Edinburgh: Mainstream. ISBN 978-1-84018-872-1.

External links

• Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 28 March 2022)
• Terry Griffiths at IMDb 
• Terry Griffiths at snooker.org
• Terry Griffiths at the World Snooker Tour (archived)