Park Drive 1000

Park Drive 1000 1973
Tournament type:	Invitation tournament
Attendees:	8th
Venue:	Belle Isle Working Mens club, Leeds , England
Opening:	1973
Endgame:	1973
Winner:	John Spencer
Finalist:	Jackie Rea

The Park Drive 1000 1973 was a one-time snooker tournament , the only edition of which was held as an invitation tournament during the 1972/73 season . The tournament was held in early 1973 at the Belle Isle Working Mens club , a working men's club in the English city ​​of Leeds . The tournament was won by John Spencer , who defeated Jackie Rea from Northern Ireland in the final . There is no data on potentially high breaks.

Prize money

The tournament was sponsored by Park Drive . There was a total of £ 782 in prize money to be won, over half of which (£ 400) went to the winner.

	Prize money
winner	400 pounds
finalist	300 pounds
Highest break	82 pounds
All in all	782 pounds

Tournament course

A total of eight professional players were invited to the tournament, most of whom were among the world's top players at the time and mainly came from England. The eight players started with the quarter-finals in the tournament, from which the winner was determined in the knockout system . Quarter and semi-finals were played in the best of 3 frames mode, followed by the final in the best of 5 frames mode .

	Quarterfinals Best of 3 Frames					Semi-finals Best of 3 Frames					Final best of 5 frames
	John Spencer		2
	John Dunning		0
						John Spencer		2
						Graham Miles		1
	Graham Miles		2
	John Pulman		0
											John Spencer		3
											Jackie Rea		2
	Jackie Rea		2
	Alex Higgins		0
						Jackie Rea		2
						David Taylor		1
	David Taylor		2
	Ray Reardon		1

final

The Englishman John Spencer had been among the best in the world for some time and had won the world championship a few years earlier. At this tournament he started with a clear win over John Dunning , one of the lesser-known participants, and then secured his place in the final with a 2-1 win over eventual runner-up Graham Miles . In this he met the Northern Irishman Jackie Rea , who had already played at a high level in the 1950s and was now in a final again. He had surprisingly defeated the reigning world champion Alex Higgins and then qualified for the final with another win over David Taylor .

Only fragmentary frame results have survived from the finale. So the second frame of the game went to Rea, followed by a frame won by Spencer. All in all, the Englishman won the final 3-2.

Final: Best of 5 Frames Belle Isle Working Mens club,  Leeds , England , 1973
John Spencer	3 : 2	Jackie Rea
??: ??, 38: 52 , 72 : 45, ??: ??, ?? : ??
-	Highest break	-
-	Century breaks	-
-	50+ breaks	-

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Ron Florax: 1973 Park Drive 1000. CueTracker.net, accessed on June 7, 2020 (English).  
2. ↑ Ron Florax: 1973 Park Drive 1000 - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed June 7, 2020 .