Gawain Jones has won this year’s British championship, the 99th overall. Hearty congratulations, though not a huge surprise as he was after all the top seed.
He lived for two years in Ennis, and his name came up here recently as part of the list of players who finished equal first in an Irish championship but were never Irish champion, from his equal-first finish in the 2004 Irish championship in Limerick.
His website contains an interesting of that event, if you read carefully (emphasis added):
July 2004, Irish Championships, Limerick. This was the first tournament I’ve won for a while with 6.5/9. Not being Irish yet I couldn’t take the title and this was taken by Joe Ryan.
Yet ?!??!!! What is he trying to tell us?