Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 Explained

The Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 was a series of snooker tournaments which started on 18 June 2011 and ended on 18 March 2012 with events held in England and Europe. European events were no longer called Euro Players Tour Championship (EPTC) and were included alongside other PTC events. The twelve regular events were minor-ranking events, which were concluded with the Finals.

Schedule

Date^[1]			rowwidth=235	Tournament Name	width=180	Venue	width=90	City	width=160	Winner	width=160	Runner–up	width=20	Score^[2] ^[3]	width=20	References
06–18	06–22		Players Tour Championship – Event 1		Sheffield			4–0	^[4]
08–06	08–10		Players Tour Championship – Event 2		Gloucester	Judd Trump		4–0	^[5]
08–17	08–21		Players Tour Championship – Event 3	World Snooker Academy	Sheffield	Ben Woollaston		4–2	^[6]
08–25	08–28			Stadthalle	Fürth	Mark Selby	Mark Davis	4–0	^[7]
09–21	09–25		Players Tour Championship – Event 5	World Snooker Academy	Sheffield			4–1	^[8]
09–29	10–02	Poland	Players Tour Championship – Event 6^[9]	Arena Ursynów	Warsaw	Neil Robertson		4–1	^[10]
10–05	10–09		Players Tour Championship – Event 7^[11]	South West Snooker Academy	Gloucester	Ronnie O'Sullivan		4–2	^[12]
		Ireland	Players Tour Championship – Event 8^[13]	Killarney Convention Centre	Killarney	Neil Robertson	Judd Trump	4–1	^[14]
11–10	11–13	Belgium	Players Tour Championship – Event 9^[15]	Lotto Arena	Antwerp	Judd Trump	Ronnie O'Sullivan	4–3	^[16]
11–27	11–30		Players Tour Championship – Event 10	World Snooker Academy	Sheffield	Michael Holt	Dominic Dale	4–2	^[17]
12–17	12–19		Players Tour Championship – Event 11	English Institute of Sport	Sheffield	Tom Ford	Martin Gould	4–3	^[18]
12–15	12–16			World Snooker Academy	Sheffield	Stephen Maguire	Joe Perry	4–2	^[19]
01–06	01–08			Event Forum	Fürstenfeldbruck
03–14	03–18	Ireland	Players Tour Championship – Finals^[20]	Bailey Allen Hall	Galway	Stephen Lee	Neil Robertson	4–0	^[21]

Order of Merit

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width=40 rowspan="2" align="center"	Rank	width=235 rowspan="2"	Player	width=90 rowspan="2"	Total Points	width=120 colspan="3"	Events Played
width=40	UK	width=40	Europe	width=40	Total
1.	Judd Trump	30,400	6	5	11
2.	Ronnie O'Sullivan	29,600	6	3	9
3.	Neil Robertson	28,100	5	5	10
4.	Michael Holt	17,500	6	6	12
5.	Mark Selby	17,100	6	4	10
6.	Graeme Dott	16,700	6	5	11
7.	Andrew Higginson	16,700	6	6	12
8.	Stephen Maguire	16,200	6	5	11
9.	Ben Woollaston	15,500	6	6	12
10.	Martin Gould	14,600	6	6	12
11.	Joe Perry	14,300	6	6	12
12.	Tom Ford	14,000	6	6	12
13.	John Higgins	13,100	6	5	11
14.	Stephen Lee	11,800	6	6	12
15.	Ricky Walden	11,600	6	6	12
16.	Mark Davis	10,500	6	6	12
17.	Matthew Stevens	9,600	6	6	12
18.	Xiao Guodong	9,100	6	6	12
19.	Fergal O'Brien	8,000	6	6	12
20.	Dominic Dale	7,600	6	6	12
21.	Barry Hawkins	7,600	6	6	12
22.	Ding Junhui	7,600	4	3	7
23.	Jamie Jones	7,300	6	6	12
24.	Jack Lisowski	7,100	6	6	12

Finals

The Finals of the Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 took place between 14–18 March 2012 at the Bailey Allen Hall in Galway, Ireland. It was contested by the top 24 players of the Order of Merit, who had played in at least 6 events (3 in the UK and 3 in Europe).

Final: Best of 7 frames. Referee: Paul Collier. Bailey Allen Hall, Galway, Ireland, 18 March 2012.
Stephen Lee (14)	4–0	Neil Robertson (3)
65–48, 62–23 (52), 63–25,
66	Highest break	35
0	Century breaks	0
2	50+ breaks	0

Notes and References

1. Dates use the month day format
2. Web site: Tournament Calendar 2011/2012. Snooker.org. 24 November 2011.
3. Web site: Finals (2011/2012). Snooker.org. 24 November 2011.
4. Web site: Players Tour Championship Event One (2012). Snooker.org. 15 January 2012.
5. Web site: Players Tour Championship Event Two (2011). Snooker.org. 14 July 2011.
6. Web site: Players Tour Championship Event Three (2011). Snooker.org. 14 July 2011.
7. Web site: Players Tour Championship Event Four (2011). Snooker.org. 28 June 2011.
8. Web site: Players Tour Championship Event Five (2011). Snooker.org. 6 September 2011.
9. Event also known as the 2011 Warsaw Classic.
10. Web site: Players Tour Championship Event Six (2011). Snooker.org. 2 September 2011.
11. Event also known as the 2011 Kay Suzanne Memorial Trophy.
12. Web site: Players Tour Championship Event Seven (2011). Snooker.org. 13 September 2011.
13. Event also known as the 2011 Alex Higgins International Trophy.
14. Web site: Players Tour Championship Event Eight (2011). Snooker.org. 20 September 2011.
15. Event also known as the 2011 Antwerp Open.
16. Web site: Players Tour Championship Event Nine (2011). Snooker.org. 24 October 2011.
17. Web site: Players Tour Championship Event Ten (2011). Snooker.org. 16 November 2011.
18. Web site: Players Tour Championship Event Eleven (2011). Snooker.org. 4 December 2011.
19. Web site: Players Tour Championship Twelve (2012). Snooker.org. 8 December 2011.
20. Event also known as the 2012 Players Tour Championship Grand Finals.
21. Web site: Players Tour Championship Final (2012). Snooker.org. 15 January 2012.
22. Web site: PTC Order of Merit after PTC12. worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 29 December 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20131210225922/http://www.worldsnooker.com/staticFiles/ae/98/0,,13165~170158,00.pdf. 10 December 2013. dead.
23. Web site: Order of Merit. Snooker.org. 8 January 2012. 8 January 2012.