Robby was born (the year Walter Lindrum died).

Robby had a vivid recurring dream of billiards being broadcast on Australian Radio back from the UK.

A chance meeting with Walter Lindrum’s tailor, Gy Antal. While Robby was trying out a waistcoat at a family friends’ tailor shop to play in his first junior tournament. An elderly Gy Antal was also in the shop. asked Robby, “you are a bit young to wear a waistcoat”.

Later around 2010, Robby Foldvari gifted the waistcoat to Neil Robertson, World Snooker Champion.

Met Walter’s contemporary and friend Murt O’Donoghue who became Robby’s coach. Murt was the first man in the world to achieve the maximum snooker break of 147.

Met Peter Andrew who later became Robby Foldvari’s sponsor to go to his first professional tour of the UK. Peter took Foldvari to Dolly Lindrum's house to let him try out Walter’s cue on Walter’s billiard table. Being present in Dolly's house further inspired Robby towards greater achievements in his career.

Trapped in a lift at Lindrum Billiard Hall, Flinders St. Dolly Lindrum helped to get him out.

Peter Andrew brought Tom Cleary (World Amateur Champion and exhibition partner of Walter Lindrum) to the leaking garage where Robby practiced, at the Foldvari family home.

Won his first ranking tournament, the City of Melbourne Snooker Championship.

Australian University Billiards and Snooker Champion

Victorian Amateur Billiards Champion, youngest ever

Australian Amateur Billiards Champion, youngest ever

Victorian Amateur Snooker Champion, youngest ever

First Victorian to make snooker century in Victorian pennant at Yarraville

World Record Amateur Billiard Break of 615 made at Brunswick Club in Australia. Recognised as there were new rules made at that time.

Robby met Sir Hubert Opperman, introduced by Robby’s sponsor to get advice from Oppy about Robby’s first overseas trip to sunny Malta, to play in the World Amateur Billiard championship because Oppy was a previous Ambassador to Malta. Reading the Lindrum story carefully in 2024, Robby is staggered to find that Oppy was the instigator of the unique headstone and marble tomb of Walter Lindrum.

Accepted and turned Professional in WPBSA

Won the Australian Professional Billiards Championship. Walter Lindrum never played in it as he let his brother Fred have the title, later Horace Lindrum also won the title.

Made his first public 147 maximum snooker break in Northamptonshire, England

Robby won the World Professional Billiards Championship. Apart from Walter Lindrum, Foldvari became the only other Australian to win the championship. Foldvari managed to cut out a piece of his old waistcoat which was made from the same cloth as Walters waistcoat, Both Foldvari’s initial waistcoat and Lindrum’s waistcoats were made by the same tailor. Foldvari kept the piece of cloth with him, so a part of his hero would be in his pocket when he won the World Billiards Championship many years later.

Finalist to Pat Cash in the Herald Caltex Sports Award

Clacton Professional Snooker Champion. Became the only player in the modern-day game (1980’s onward) to win both a professional billiards and snooker tournament.

USSR Snooker Champion

‘It was 1990 and I was invited to play snooker in Russia. It was an incredible experience, and I beat Ian Williamson in the final in front of 3,000 people at a basketball arena, which some say was the largest ever crowd for a snooker match at the time,’ - Foldvari.

TV Commentator at Mita World Snooker Masters, and Dubai Classic Snooker

UK Professional Billiards Champion (England). First overseas player to win the Championship since its inception in 1930’s. Many say they made up this championship so that English players could win a tournament as Walter Lindrum was not allowed to enter.

National Coach of Singapore, first ever Cuesport Gold Medal for Singapore in South East Asian Games held in Thailand

World Cup of Snooker, Australian team captain, Quarter Finalists, Thailand

World Matchplay Billiards Champion, England

Official Coach in China

World IBSF Billiards Champion Walter Lindrum Centenary Tournament 100 years after birth of Walter

Australian Snooker Champion

World Snooker Team Cup, Australian Captain, USA

Robby was engaged to perform an exhibition of games and trick shots at the house of a client called Harald for his 50th Birthday. Robby started talking to an elderly man in the corner who turned out to be Walter Lindrum’s junior accountant Robert Charlton, who confirmed Wally’s lackadaisical manner with finance.

Robby’s parents came to Australia in 1959 and Robby was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1960. They knew nothing of English Billiards but thought who better to call their first-born child after than the Prime Minister of the day Sir Robert Menzies. Menzies was a good friend of Walter’s and a frequent visitor to the Lindrum family home.

Australian Masters Snooker Champion

In the Australian Snooker Championship, Robby forfeited his match while leading in the quarterfinals, played at the RACV Club in Melbourne, after being notified that his mother, Katalin, had passed away in care. Robby had visited his mum between matches that weekend. In another twist of fate, Walter's wife, Rosie, passed away while he was playing on August 23, 1929, in Melbourne. The first letter of condolence Robby received at the club was from Dolly Lindrum!

From 2010 onwards, Robby turned more to Pool disciplines for new adventures and challenges to quench his insatiable quest for knowledge and competition in the world of cuesports, hence completing the circle of Lindrum’s journey in billiard sports.

Goldfields World Ranking Snooker Championship - Robby was the expert commentator for the World Snooker Global Event. Note: Walter was inducted in the Goldfields Hall of Fame in 2005.

Robby met his childhood hero, Ian Chappell (Australian Cricket Captain). Robby would catch up with Chappelli to coach him, and over the years, they became friends. There is an iconic photo of Lindrum and Sir Donald Bradman, and they too became friends. Just like so many of the Lindrum/Foldvari stories, the opposites continue. Even though Chappell and Bradman were both cricket legends, they were opposites in terms of their ideas and reforms for the game of cricket.

Australian Open 9 Ball Champion

Australian National 9 Ball Champion

World Games last 16 — Cali, Colombia

Australian Open 10 Ball Champion

World Pool Teams Captain Quarter finals

Australian Open 8 Ball Champion. Robby completed the Royal Flush of National titles in every cuesport: snooker, billiards, 8 Ball, 9 ball and 10 Ball Pool.

Played in the inaugural World Chinese 8 Ball Championship in Yushan, China

Trinity of world champions in three different disciplines: Robby Foldvari (billiards), Jeanette "Black Widow" Lee (pool), and Neil Robertson (snooker)

Australian Open 10 Ball Champion

Australian Doubles 9 Ball Champion

World Cup of Pool UK, last 16

Robby qualified for the China Open 9 Ball Championship by being ranked No 1 in Oceania.

In 1957, Walter Lindrum toured Asia, where 7,500 schoolchildren attended one of his exhibitions. Walter was sponsored by the Australian Government to promote the idea of Asian students coming to Australia. Robby has since been inducted into Monash University’s Sports Hall of Fame and was sponsored by the university to travel to tournaments in Asia, helping to promote Monash to Asian students.

Australian Open 8 Ball Champion

Dolly Lindrum passed away and her wish was that Robby speak at her funeral.

Robby participated in his 50^th World Championship at the World Snooker Federation Championship where he made the highest snooker break by an Australian.

Robby was surprised to be presented with a portrait photo by the management in recognition of his long association with the club, during the 100^th anniversary of The RACV Annual Billiards Tournament. The photo was mounted on the wall at one end of the magnificent billiard room. Coincidentally, at the other end of the room hangs a picture of Walter Lindrum. Additionally, Dolly Lindrum was a member of the club for over 50 years.

Discussing the history of the game with Tammy Lindrum, Robby mentioned that it is very difficult to compare eras of great players, for example Robby said “the pockets of today are bigger than the old billiard tables in the 1980’s and before. Tammy perked up and said “my dad said the same thing many years ago”.

Confiding with Tammy all the above, Tammy says we should put something more on the Lindrum website about Robby Foldvari.

Robby recently watched Walter’s snooker break in an old film posted on Facebook and, coincidentally, it was on the same model table as Foldvari’s—an NJ Alcock billiard table, which Foldvari had purchased when he was 15 years old. Robby’s father, Jeno, had to reconfigure and weld the structural frame of the garage to accommodate the full-size billiard table. Under the tin roof and between leaky brick walls, Robby would practice for hours at a time—enduring extreme heat in the summer and a damp, wet carpet in the winter.

It’s a true privilege to donate the Australian Professional Billiards Trophy—won 40 years ago and sponsored by People Magazine—as the perpetual trophy for the Walter Lindrum Australian Open Billiards Championship. Walter was my hero, and winning the same World Championship he’d claimed years earlier changed my life. This tournament was a special one, made even more meaningful by the chance to present my old trophy, now bearing Walter’s name. A big thank you to Tammy Lindrum for restoring it, honouring both Walter and her father, Horace Lindrum. It takes me back to the final pro championship I won at the Tatts Club in Sydney, defeating the legendary Paddy Morgan.