Bruce Critchley
{{short description|UK TV broadcaster and commentator|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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Bruce Fishwick Critchley (born 9 December 1942){{cite news |newspaper=The Times |date=11 December 1942 |page=1 |title=Births}} is a UK TV broadcaster and commentator who worked for the BBC in the 1980s and from the early 1990s was a member of Sky Sports golf broadcasting team until his retirement in the mid-2010s.{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/LeeBelshaw2/status/953850819681619968 |title=Retirement Bruce Critchley |publisher=Twitter}}
Background
Critchley was the son of Air Commodore Alfred Critchley and his third wife, Diana Fishwick.{{cite news |newspaper=The Times |date=13 May 1943 |page=7 |title=Christening}} His father was a useful amateur golfer and had won the Addington Foursomes in 1939 partnered by Dai Rees.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0EZAAAAAIBAJ&pg=4039%2C811562 |title=Cotton beaten in foursomes |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=6 April 1939 |page=3}} His mother had won the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship in 1930 and had played in the Curtis Cup in 1932 and 1934 and was non-playing captain in 1950.
Golf
Critchley was never a professional golfer unlike many of his fellow broadcasters. He won the Worplesdon Mixed Foursomes in 1961, partnered by Frances Smith, and he first played for England as an amateur at the age of nineteen in 1962.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=d4VAAAAAIBAJ&pg=1753%2C6735699 |title=Mrs Smith's fourth success |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=13 October 1961 |page=6}} Seven years later he was picked to play for Great Britain & Ireland against America in the 1969 Walker Cup. That same year he was a member of the England team that won the European Amateur Team Championship and he also reached the final of the Worplesdon Mixed Foursomes.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=D5JAAAAAIBAJ&pg=6175%2C3126955 |title=Splendid putting display by Mrs Ferguson |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=17 October 1969 |page=6}} In 1970 he was runner-up in the Golf Illustrated Gold Vase, finishing a stroke behind the winner, and reached the semi-finals of the Amateur Championship before losing 2&1 to the eventual winner Michael Bonallack.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ipVAAAAAIBAJ&pg=5041%2C1955481 |title=Costly slip by Critchley |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |page=5 |date=11 May 1970}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VJJAAAAAIBAJ&pg=1829%2C1317691 |title=Bonallack again to meet Hyndman in Amateur final |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |page=4 |date=6 June 1970}}
Tournament wins
- 1961 Worplesdon Mixed Foursomes (with Frances Smith)
- 1964 Sunningdale Foursomes (with Robin Hunter)
- 1969 Hampshire Hog, Surrey Amateur
- 1974 The Antlers (Royal Mid-Surrey)
Team appearances
Amateur
- Walker Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1969
- St Andrews Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1970 (winners)
- European Amateur Team Championship (representing England): 1969 (winners)
- Men's Home Internationals (representing England): 1962 (joint winners), 1969 (winners), 1970
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