Australian Professional Championship
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Tournament information | |
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Country | Australia |
Established | 1963 |
Format | Non-ranking event |
Final year | 1988 |
Final champion | ![]() |
The Australian Professional Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament which was open only for Australian or Australian-based players.
History
[edit]From 1963 to 1974 the Australian Professional Championship was held on a challenge basis and dominated by Eddie Charlton who won ten times in that period. It became a knockout tournament in 1975. It was then not held until 1984 when the WPBSA offered a subsidy of £1,000 per man to any country holding a national professional championship. This subsidy ended in 1988/1989 after which date most national championships were discontinued.
Eddie Charlton won the tournament on a record 20 occasions.
Winners
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ This was also a qualifying event for the 1971 World Snooker Championship
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Australian Professional Championship". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 7 January 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
- ^ "Snooker won by Simpson". The Sydney Morning Herald. 17 October 1963. p. 16.
- ^ Kobylecky, John. The Complete International Directory of Snooker Players – 1927 to 2018. Kobyhadrian Books. ISBN 978-0-9931433-1-1.