Forwood's Third Masters

Carol ForwoodVictoria's Carol Forwood (pictured right) had a huge day winning her third Pacific Masters title from a field of 88 players. She has been in great form of late on the Australian darts circuit, winning just about everything she has entered. In the final she had to defeat local Queensland Champion Pam Burr.

The Pacific Masters Final was a fairly even contest with both players in pretty good form after some powerful wins in their semi finals. Burr was away first and started scoring brilliantly but wasted six darts at trying to hit the first double. This gave Forwood her first break, hitting a 115 finish to claim leg one. This boosted Forwood's confidence and with some strong scoring and a clean finish was in a flash two legs up. Burr struck back with some strong darts in leg three. The fourth leg saw again strong scoring by Burr including a 180, but her finishing again was letting her down. She wasted 10 darts trying to hit the right double to win the leg but it was not to be. This gave Forwood every opportunity to steal the leg which did. Leg five and both players were hitting the big scores. Burr started with three 100's in a row, but Forwood was matching her and with a brilliant 77 finish she claimed the fifth leg and the title. It had been a close contest and the third Pacific Masters title for Forwood, previously winning in 1995 and 2003. A good day for Forwood winning $1100.00 in prize money and some more very valuable World and BDO ranking points.

Carol Forwood and Pam BurrPacific Masters Final Averages: Carol Forwood 21.882 Pam Burr 20.964