Welsh Professional Championship 1977
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Welsh Professional Championship 1977 William Hill Welsh Professional Championship 1977 
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| Tournament type: | Non-ranking |
| Attendees: | 2 |
| Venue: | Club Double Diamond , Caerphilly , Wales |
| Opening: | September 25, 1977 |
| Endgame: | September 25 & 26, 1977
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| Winner: |
 Ray Reardon
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| Finalist: |
Doug Mountjoy
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| Highest Break: | 95 ( Doug Mountjoy )
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The 1977 William Hill Welsh Professional Championship was a professional snooker tournament of the 1977/78 season to determine the Welsh professional champions between the then only two Welsh professional players Ray Reardon and Doug Mountjoy . The tournament was on 25 and 26 September 1977 Club Double Diamond in Welsh Caerphilly played, winning world champion Ray Reardon, the Mountjoy was 12: defeated eighth In contrast, Mountjoy played the tournament's highest break with a 95 break.
After there had already been an edition in 1927 and JS Nicholls had defeated his compatriot W. Davies at that time, the Welsh Professional Championship was revived after fifty years. But although the tournament had a sponsor with the bookmaker William Hill , the tournament was not held again in the following year due to the lack of success and only revived in 1980 with two participants.
Prize money
There was a total of £ 2,000 to be won, three quarters of which went to the winner and the remaining quarter to the loser.
The game
Mountjoy won the first frame of the game, but then fell 3-1 behind before catching up to 3-3. Reardon then took the lead 6: 3, 7: 4 and 9: 6 before Mountjoy got a frame on him. However, Reardon ended the game by winning the last three necessary frames and taking the tournament title.
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Final: Best of 23 Frames Club Double Diamond , Caerphilly , Wales , September 25 & 26, 1977 |
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Ray Reardon
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12 : 8 |
Doug Mountjoy
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| 9: 108 , 71 : 44, 52 : 45, 63 : 41, 27: 90 , 23: 107 (63), 90 : 27, 60 : 57, 96 : 37, 16: 100 (50), 84 : 34, 44: 77 (64), 37: 55 , 72 : 33 (72), 73 : 36, 42: 93 , 0: 135 (95), 61 : 48, 87 : 29, 88 : 41 |
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| 72 | Highest break | 95 |
| - | Century breaks | - |
| 1 | 50+ breaks | 4th |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ron Florax: 1977 Welsh Professional Championship. CueTracker.net, accessed June 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Chris Turner: Welsh Professional Championship. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, 2008, archived from the original on April 18, 2016 ; accessed on June 9, 2019 (English).
- ↑ Ron Florax: 1977 Welsh Professional Championship - Finishes. Cuetracker.net, accessed on June 9, 2019 .