Irish Masters 1989

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Irish Masters 1989
Benson & Hedges Irish Masters 1989
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Tournament type: Invitation tournament
Venue: Goffs , Kill , Ireland
Opening: March 1989
Endgame: March 1989

Winner: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins
Finalist: ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry
Highest Break: 136 ( Stephen Hendry ) ScotlandScotland
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The 1989 Benson & Hedges Irish Masters was a snooker invitation tournament belonging to the 1988/89 snooker season. It was held in March 1989 in Goffs in the small town of Kill in County Kildare , Ireland . The winner was Alex Higgins , who won a professional tournament for the last time and the Irish Masters for the first time with a 9: 8 win over Stephen Hendry . Stephen Hendry played all three century breaks with a 136 break, a 109 break, and a 105 break

Prize money

The total prize pool increased by only about £ 4,000 after much larger increases in previous years. Of the total of ₤ 112,160, ₤ 27,242 went to the winner Alex Higgins and ₤ 1,934 to Stephen Hendry as a bonus for the highest break. Once again, the tournament was sponsored by the cigarette brand Benson & Hedges .

Prize money
winner 27,242 ₤
final 16,764 ₤
Semifinals 11,316 ₤
Quarter finals 6,706 ₤
Round 1 4,191 ₤
Highest break 1,934 ₤
All in all 112,160 ₤

competition

As in previous years, most of the 12 participants competed in the first round and four of the twelve in the quarter-finals. These two rounds were played in the best of 9 frames mode , while the semifinals were played in the best of 11 frames mode and the final in the best of 17 frames mode.

For the first time since 1981 no Irish player took part in the tournament, but with Jack McLaughlin there was another player who completed the Northern Irish field of participants around Alex Higgins and Dennis Taylor .

  First round
best of 9 frames 		Quarterfinals
Best of 9 Frames 		Semi-final
best of 11 frames 		Final
Best of 17 frames
                             
Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins 5     EnglandEngland Neal Foulds 2  
CanadaCanada Cliff Thorburn 4th     Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins 5  
  Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins 6th  
  EnglandEngland John Parrott 4th  
EnglandEngland John Parrott 5     EnglandEngland Jimmy White 1
Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor 1     EnglandEngland John Parrott 5  
  Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins 9
  ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 8th
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths 5     ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 5  
Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Jack McLaughlin 4th     WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths 2  
  ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 6th
  EnglandEngland Steve Davis 4th  
EnglandEngland Mike Hallett 5     EnglandEngland Steve Davis 5
EnglandEngland Tony Knowles 0     EnglandEngland Mike Hallett 4th  

final

In the final, the reigning champion of Ireland met Alex Higgins on Stephen Hendry , who had already won three tournaments this season. Among other things, Higgins had defeated last year's finalist Neal Foulds before reaching the final of the tournament for the second time since 1985. His opponent was the Scot Stephen Hendry, who had already won three tournaments this season and had defeated Steve Davis, the winner of the last two editions, when he participated for the first time.

Hendry got off to a much better start and took the lead 0: 4 and 1: 5, also thanks to a 105 break. But Higgins then played the game and took the lead 6: 5 after an equalization. Hendry, on the other hand, first took the lead and then extended it to 6: 8. With a break of 54, Higgins won the next frame before he also won the following frame and thus forced the decider . Higgind won this with a break of 62, which meant that the Northern Irish won a tournament for the last time in his career, while the Scot Hendry should dominate the 1990s.

Final: Best of 17 Frames
Referee: John Street Goffs ,  Kill , Ireland , March 1989 EnglandEngland
Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins 9 : 8 ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry
55: 64 ; 44: 68 ; 7: 111 (62); 1: 129 (105); 88 : 30 (68); 28: 111 (70); 79:20 ; 68:18 ;
101 : 7; 77:45 ; 62:15 ; 14; 109 (109); 45: 55 ; 33: 74 ; 86 : 22 (54); 66 : 8; 67 : 21 (62)
68 Highest break 109
- Century breaks 2
3 50+ breaks 4th

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ron Florax: 1989 Irish Masters. Cuetracker.net, archived from the original on August 6, 2018 ; accessed on August 6, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Ron Florax: 1989 Irish Masters - Finishes. Cuetracker.net, archived from the original on August 6, 2018 ; accessed on August 6, 2018 .