Professional Career
At the 1984 Busch Open Nine-Ball at Miller Time Billiards in Moline, Illinois, Mathews captured the first-place prize monies as well as a Brunswick Gold Crown pool table, defeating Howard Vickery in the finals.
In December 2005, Grady Mathews competed in the International Pool Tour King of the Hill Shootout in Orlando, Florida, an invitational event consisting of 43 pool players with accomplishments in the discipline of pocket billiards, and was a member of the International Pool Tour.
Mathews, considered a veteran in the pocket billiards industry, promoted and produced the following pool tournaments:
- 1983 All Around Pocket Billiards Open, (Tampa, Florida)
- 1985 Motor City Open, (Detroit, Michigan)
- 1990 and 1991, Legends of One-Pocket Championship, (Columbia, South Carolina)
- 1991 Legends of One-Pocket Championship, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- 1993 Legends of One-Pocket Championship, (Reno, Nevada)
- 1994 Legends of One-Pocket Championship, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- 1995 The Maine Event 14.1 Championship, (Portland, Maine)
- 1995 Legends of One-Pocket Championship, (Olathe, Kansas)
- 1995 Back Pocket Nine-Ball Open, (Hampton, Virginia)
- 1998 Legends of One-Pocket Championship, (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
- 1999 World One-pocket Championship, (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
- 1999 Seniors Nine-ball Championship, (Portland, Maine)
- 2000 World One-Pocket Championship, (Portland, Maine)
- 2003 Seniors Nine-ball Championship, (Naples, Florida)
- 2004 Gulf Coast Classic, (Gulfport, Mississippi)
Mathews is also well known for his work as a commentator on numerous matches recorded by Accu-Stats Video Productions, and has produced many of his own instructional videos providing strategies that have made Mathews "the most feared one-pocket player in the world. Up until his death, he wrote a monthly instruction column for InsidePOOL Magazine and has been a contributing writer to other pool periodicals such as Billiards Digest, 1984-1987, The Snap Magazine, 1989-1991, and The National Billiard News.
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