1989 Scottish Professional Championship
The 1989 Scottish Professional Championship was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament which took place in February 1989 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 1–19 February 1989 |
| Venue | Marco's Leisure Centre |
| City | Edinburgh |
| Country | Scotland |
| Organisation | WPBSA |
| Format | Non-Ranking event |
| Total prize fund | £6,000 |
| Winner's share | £2,000 |
| Highest break | John Rea (147) |
| Final | |
| Champion |  John Rea |
| Runner-up | Murdo MacLeod |
| Score | 9–7 |
← 1988 2011 → | |
The tournament featured eight exclusively Scottish professional players. The quarter-final and semi-final matches were contested over the best of 9 frames, and the final as best of seventeen. Defending champion Stephen Hendry did not enter; his manager Ian Doyle said that this was because Hendry was "in a different class" to the other Scottish professional players.[1]
The 1989 tournament was the last for twenty-two years, before its revival in 2011.
John Rea won the event, beating Murdo MacLeod 9–7 in the final. In his earlier match against Ian Black, Rea compiled a 147 maximum break.[1] It was the first maximum break achieved in a tournament in Scotland,[2] and was also his first competitive century break. The title was the first, and only, of Rea's career.
Main draw
| Quarter-finals Best of 9 frames | Semi-finals Best of 9 frames | Final Best of 17 frames | ||||||||||||
| Murdo MacLeod
| 5 | |||||||||||||
| Eddie McLaughlin
| 0 | Murdo MacLeod
| 5 | |||||||||||
| Matt Gibson
| 5 | Matt Gibson
| 1 | |||||||||||
| Eddie Sinclair
| 4 | Murdo MacLeod
| 7 | |||||||||||
| John Rea
| 5 | John Rea
| 9 | |||||||||||
| Ian Black
| 3 | John Rea
| 5 | |||||||||||
| Jim Donnelly
| 5 | Jim Donnelly
| 1 | |||||||||||
| Bert Demarco
| 1 | |||||||||||||
Final
| Final: Best of 17 frames. Marco's Leisure Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, 19 February 1989. | ||
| John Rea Scotland |
9–7 | Murdo MacLeod Scotland |
| 19–88(59), 68–41, 74–44, 61–53, 41–69, 28–69(50), 1–73, 73–7, 75(74)–28, 69–21, 18–79, 65–43, 42–73, 59–62(55), 62–31, 71–61 | ||
| 74 | Highest break | 59 |
| 0 | Century breaks | 0 |
| 1 | 50+ breaks | 3 |
References
- Morrison, John (April 1989). "Maximum break, minimum prize for John Rea". Snooker Scene. p. 7.
- "No prize for Rea's maximum effort". The Glasgow Herald. 18 February 1989. Archived from the original on 22 November 2021. Retrieved 22 November 2021.