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The World Snooker Championship trophy. The World Snooker Championship is an annual snooker tournament founded in 1927, and played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England since 1977. The tournament is now played over seventeen days in late April and early May, and is chronologically the third of the three Triple Crown events of the season.
This was the 38th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship was held at the Crucible Theatre. [13] Of the 32 participants, 16 players qualified for the event from the snooker world rankings, and 16 from a four-round qualifying event held at Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield, England.
The World Champions Cup is an annual golf tournament for three seven-player teams, consisting of PGA Tour Champions players. It is held at The Concession Golf Club in the Bradenton, Florida . It was first played in 2023 [ 1 ]
Shown below are the results for each round. Numbers in brackets denote player seedings; players in bold denote match winners. [70] [71] [72] The draw for the first round took place at Hallamshire Golf Club on 16 April 2015, one day after the end of the last qualifying round. [73] [74]
The Players Series is a bonus competition for players who have earned the most money in a series of professional snooker tournaments. [1] The series involves three events: the World Grand Prix, Players Championship and Tour Championship. It was established in 2019.
Most recently, the 2023 champion Luca Brecel lost in the first round of the 2024 World Snooker Championship. Kyren Wilson, winner of the 2024 event, is yet to attempt to break the Crucible curse. Several world champions successfully defended their first title in the pre-Crucible era; the last to do so was John Pulman in 1964. [6]
The players competing in the qualifying included the tour players ranked outside the top 16, players featured as top-ups from the Q School and invited players from the WPBSA. [81] The 16 invited qualifiers were made up of seven players who won or were runner-up in the following events together with 9 players invited based on the European ...
The tournament was the last of nine ranking events in the 2011–12 snooker season on the World Snooker Tour. [13] It featured a 32-player main draw that was held at the Crucible Theatre, as well as a qualifying draw that was played at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield from 5 to 15 April. [14]