Doug Mountjoy
| Born |
8 June 1942 Glamorgan |
|---|---|
| Sport country |
 Wales
|
| Professional | 1976–1997 |
| Highest ranking | 5 (1990/91) |
| Career winnings | £759,659 |
| Highest break | 145 (1981 World Championship) |
| Century breaks | 49 |
| Tournament wins | |
| Ranking | 2 |
| Non-ranking | 16 |
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 United Arab Emirates snooker association between 1997 and 1999.
Mountjoy was brought up just outside Ebbw Vale and worked for some years as a coal miner. A well-known player in the valleys as a youth and young man, he won many amateur tournaments including two Welsh Amateur titles and the World Amateur title in 1976, for which he beat Paul Mifsud 11–1. After the World Amateur victory he turned professional, at the age of 34.
Mountjoy's first success was as a late replacement in the 1977 Masters at the New London Theatre, his first professional tournament. He beat former world champions John Pulman, Fred Davis and Alex Higgins, and in the final defeated the then world champion (and defending Masters titleholder) Ray Reardon 7–6 to win the title.
At the World Championship a couple of months later, he beat Higgins again in the first round but lost to Dennis Taylor in the quarter-final 11–13. At the end of 1977 he reached the final of the first-ever UK Snooker Championship, losing to Patsy Fagan 9–12. He won the title a year later beating David Taylor 15–9, and in the same season he beat Ray Reardon to win the Irish Masters 6–5.
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