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Maureen Flowers (born 6 December 1945) was for many years the number-one female darts player in the 1970s and the 1980s. Flowers grew up in Norton Green in Stoke-on-Trent, England. She grew up learning to play darts in her father's pub.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Maureen Flowers )〕 She won the Ladies National Pairs with her friend Yvonne Allen.〔 Flowers began competing in the Indoor League, a first for televised darts, from 1976 and later became the first professional female darts player.〔 She won the North American Open Dart Tournament (NAODT) three years in the Ladies' Singles category: 1977, 1979, and 1981. Twice a World Masters finalist, Flowers lost on both occasions to Ann Marie Davies in 1982 and Mandy Solomons in 1988. At the WDF World Cup in 1983, she did win the Women's Pairs (with Audrey Derham) and Women's Overall events.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=WDF World Cup Roll of Honour )〕 Sponsored by Unicorn, Flowers designed her own signature darts.〔 In 1988, Flowers quit professional darts.〔 In 1996, she was entered into the National Darts Hall of Fame.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=National Darts Hall of Fame: The Hall of Fame (1990s) )〕 From 1978 to 1987, Flowers was in a relationship with Eric Bristow. Flowers was also the first manager of Bristow's protégé, Phil Taylor, during the late 1980s and early 1990s, before Tommy Cox took over as Taylor's manager. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maureen Flowers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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