Players Tour Championship 2011/12

The 2011/12 Players Tour Championship was a series of snooker tournaments that took place for the second time in the 2011/12 snooker season . Compared to the other world ranking tournaments of the Snooker Main Tour there were fewer points to be won for the snooker world ranking list . However, the eight most successful participants who had not already qualified for the following season via the snooker world rankings qualified directly for the 2012/13 snooker season .

It was a Pro-Am tournament series, in which Main Tour professionals and amateurs played.

In the previous year, a distinction was made between EPTC and PTC tournaments, depending on whether they belonged to the six European or the six UK tournaments. The name was dropped, but the distinction was retained to promote tournaments on the continent. Only those who had participated in at least three tournaments of the respective assignment were eligible to participate in the PTC final. Unlike last year, Gloucester was not one of the European locations this time. Nevertheless, this time there were only five tournaments outside of England, as no other venue could be found and the eleventh tournament had to be moved to the Snooker Academy in Sheffield . Because of problems with the venue, the first rounds of the twelfth event were also outsourced there.

Tournament overview

#	date	competition	venue	winner	finalist	Result
1	June 18 to June 22, 2011	PTC Event 1	Sheffield	Ronnie O'Sullivan	Joe Perry	4-0
2	August 6th to August 10th 2011	PTC Event 2	Gloucester	Judd Trump	Ding Junhui	4-0
3	August 17 to August 21, 2011	PTC Event 3	Sheffield	Ben Woollaston	Graeme Dott	4: 2
4th	August 25 to August 28, 2011	PTC Event 4 - Paul Hunter Classic 2011	Fuerth E.	Mark Selby	Mark Davis	4-0
5	September 21 to September 25, 2011	PTC Event 5	Sheffield	Andrew Higginson	John Higgins	4: 1
6th	September 29 to October 2, 2011	PTC Event 6 - Warsaw Classic 2011	Warsaw E	Neil Robertson	Ricky Walden	4: 1
7th	October 5 to October 9, 2011	PTC Event 7 - Kay Suzanne Memorial Trophy 2011	Gloucester	Ronnie O'Sullivan	Matthew Stevens	4: 2
8th	October 20 to October 23, 2011	PTC Event 8 - Alex Higgins International Trophy 2011	Killarney E.	Neil Robertson	Judd Trump	4: 1
9	November 10th to November 13th, 2011	PTC Event 9 - Antwerp Open 2011	Antwerp E	Judd Trump	Ronnie O'Sullivan	4: 3
10	November 27 to November 30, 2011	PTC Event 10	Sheffield	Michael Holt	Dominic Dale	4: 2
11	December 17 to December 19, 2011	PTC Event 11	Sheffield E.	Tom Ford	Martin Gould	4: 3
12	December 15 to December 16, 2011 January 6 to January 8, 2012	PTC Event 12 - FFB Snooker Open 2012	Sheffield Furstenfeldbruck E.	Stephen Maguire	Joe Perry	4: 2
final	March 14th to March 18th, 2012	Grand Finals	Galway	Stephen Lee	Neil Robertson	4-0

^E These tournaments were counted as European tournaments, the other tournaments as UK tournaments

Prize money and ranking points

The prize money for the PTC tournaments in mainland Europe was paid out in euros. The prize money for the PTC tournaments in Great Britain and for the final was paid in sterling.

	Prize money	Ranking points 1
winner	£ 10,000 / € (£ 70,000)	2,000 (3,000)
finalist	£ 5,000 / € (£ 35,000)	1,600 (2,400)
Semi-finalist	£ 2,500 / € (£ 20,000)	1,280 (1,920)
Quarter finalist	£ 1,500 / € (£ 10,000)	1,000 (1,500)
Round of 16	£ 1,000 / € (£ 5,000)	760 (1,140)
Last 32 (Last 24)	£ 600 / € (£ 2,750)	560 (840)
Last 64	£ / € 200	360
Highest break	? £ / € (£ 3,000)
Maximum break	£ 500 / € 2 (£ 35,000)
total	£ 50,000 / € (£ 250,000)

The values ​​in brackets apply to the final.

• ¹ Only professional players received ranking points.
• ² If no maximum break was achieved in a PTC event, the £ / € 500 accumulated to £ 1,000, 1,500, £ 2,000, etc.

Prize money list

(after 12 of 12 tournaments)

Place a	player	Total prize money	Participation
			UK b	Europe b	total
1. (1)	Judd Trump	30,400	6th	5	11
2. (2)	Ronnie O'Sullivan	29,600	6th	3	9
3. (3)	Neil Robertson	28,100	5	5	10
4. (6)	Michael Holt	17,500	6th	6th	12
5. (4)	Mark Selby	17,100	6th	4th	10
6. (5)	Graeme Dott	16,700	6th	5	11
7. (8)	Andrew Higginson	16,700	6th	6th	12
8. (26)	Stephen Maguire	16,200	6th	5	11
9. (7)	Ben Woollaston	15,500	6th	6th	12
10. (11)	Martin Gould	14,600	6th	6th	12
11. (15)	Joe Perry	14,300	6th	6th	12
12. (9)	Tom Ford	14,000	6th	6th	12
13. (10)	John Higgins	13,100	6th	5	11
14. (12)	Stephen Lee	11,800	6th	6th	12
15. (13)	Ricky Walden	11,600	6th	6th	12
16. (14)	Mark Davis	10,500	6th	6th	12
17. (16)	Matthew Stevens	9,600	6th	6th	12
18. (17)	Xiao Guodong	9,100	6th	6th	12
19. (18)	Fergal O'Brien	8,000	6th	6th	12
20. (19)	Dominic Dale	7,600	6th	6th	12
21. (20)	Barry Hawkins	7,600	6th	6th	12
22. (22)	Ding Junhui	7,600	4th	3	7th
23. (21)	Jamie Jones	7,300	6th	6th	12
24. (24)	Jack Lisowski	7,100	6th	6th	12

• ^a The number in brackets indicates the previous place.
• ^b Participation in at least three UK and three European tournaments was a prerequisite for participation in the PTC final.

Qualification for the Main Tour

The following players qualified for the Main Tour of the 2012/13 snooker season :

space	player	Prize money	Order of Merit
1	Li Yan	4,400	44
2	Passakorn Suwannawat	3,700	54
3	Simon Bedford	3,400	56
4th	Dechawat Poomjaeng	3,400	58
5	Craig Steadman	3,400	59
6th	Kurt Maflin	3,200	61
7th	David Grace	3,000	63
8th	Liam Highfield	3,000	65

	Main Tour player of the 2011/12 season outside the top 64
	Amateur player (not on the Main Tour in the 2011/12 season)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Order of Merit - Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 . Snooker.org. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Order of Merit after Players Tour Championship 2012 - Event 12 (PDF; 338 kB) In: worldsnooker.com . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . January 9, 2012. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved on January 12, 2012.