- Source: Pontins Professional
The Pontins Professional was an invitational professional non-ranking snooker tournament which ran from 1974 until 2000.
History
Top snooker professionals had regularly supplemented their income from professional events by playing exhibition matches on the holiday camp circuit, with Pontins being a regular venue for entertaining holiday-makers. Beginning in 1974, a tournament involving eight professional players began at Pontins and became a regular point in the snooker calendar, usually occurring in the summer after the World Snooker Championship. This ran in conjunction with an Open tournament, in which many young amateur players took part, and provided a springboard for future stars such as Paul Hunter and Judd Trump. There were also juniors, seniors, and ladies events.
While top professional players regularly entered in the tournament's early years, the increase in the number of events on the snooker tour led to the biggest stars choosing not to enter in later years, and the professional tournament was last held in 2000.
Winners
Statistics
= Finalists
== Champions by country
=See also
1980 Pontins Camber Sands
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Pontins Professional
- 1976 Pontins Professional
- 1989 Pontins Professional
- 1988 Pontins Professional
- 1991 Pontins Professional
- Willie Thorne
- 1981 Pontins Professional
- 1993 Pontins Professional
- 1980 Pontins Professional
- 1990 Pontins Professional
