The Hurricane Higgins is
the player that brought the game of snooker to a wider audience and
contributing to its peak in popularity. Higgins won 28 titles. In 1978 he
defeated Cliff Thorburn and Terry Griffiths to win the master. In a TV documentary,
Steve Davis described him as the "one true genius that snooker has
produced". He died at the age of 61. He was Northern Irish. His
doubles partner was Jimmy White. Another person he played against was Stephen
Hendry.
