Dave Lockwood (tiddlywinks)

Lockwood attended college at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), graduating in 1975.[2] Lockwood's professional career was as an airplane executive.[1] As of 1978, he was an economic forecaster for Pan Am.[3] In 1988, he gave his profession as aviation specialist with Booz Allen Hamilton.[4] He worked as an economist for Gulf Air, an airline based in Bahrain as of 1994.[5]

Lockwood began playing tiddlywinks during his freshman year at MIT. He signed up to play the game as a joke after viewing it in the student handbook.[6] He plays using the nickname "The Dragon", alluding to the fact that he was born in the Year of the Dragon.[2] Lockwood has won 41 national and world tiddlywinks titles. He has additionally won five international titles competing as a duo with Larry Kahn.[6] Lockwood and Kahn frequently compete against each other, with Sports Illustrated comparing their rivalry to that of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.[7] In 1979, Lockwood held the record for most consecutive shots "potted" (made into the cup) without missing, at 722.[8] In 1988, he and Kahn held the world record for the fewest shots taken (21) to pot 12 winks from the corner of a standard wink table.[4]

Lockwood is involved in coordinating and organizing tiddlywinks events and tournaments, and was the head of the International Federation of Tiddlywinks Associations.[8]

Lockwood married Deja Lockwood[5] and has five children, all of whom he taught how to play tiddlywinks.[9]

His third child, Max, became one of the youngest tiddlywinks players to win a national title, which he did at age 12[9][10] by winning the North American Pairs championship in 2001, competing in a team with his father.[11]