1976/77 snooker season

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1976/77 snooker season
Billiard Picto 2-black.svg
Season dates
Beginning of the season September 1976
End of season May 7, 1977
Ranked tournaments 1
Non-ranking 4th
Invitation tournaments 2
number of players 40
Triple Crown Winner
Masters WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy
World Champion EnglandEngland John Spencer
World ranking
Ranking first WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ray Reardon
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The 1976/77 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments that were part of the Snooker Main Tour . The season began in early September 1976 and ended on May 7, 1977. There were 40 active players during the season.

Tournaments

7 tournaments were played during the season.

date competition venue winner Final opponent Result
September 1976 AustraliaAustralia Australian Professional Championship Melbourne AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton AustraliaAustralia Paddy Morgan kl.
September CanadaCanada Canadian Open Toronto EnglandEngland John Spencer Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins 17: 9
December 1st to December 12th AustraliaAustralia World Professional Matchplay Championship Melbourne AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ray Reardon 31:24
January 1, 1977 EnglandEngland Pot Black Birmingham South Africa 1961South Africa Perrie Mans WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy 1-0
February 7th to 12th EnglandEngland Masters London WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ray Reardon 7: 6
April 18-30 EnglandEngland World Snooker Championship Sheffield EnglandEngland John Spencer CanadaCanada Cliff Thorburn 25:21
April 30th to May 7th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Pontins Professional Prestatyn EnglandEngland John Spencer EnglandEngland John Pulman 7: 5

World ranking

For the first time, a snooker world ranking was drawn up. It was - like the Order of Merit in the previous year - calculated from the results of the snooker world championships in 1975 , 1976 and 1977 and used as the seeding list for the snooker world championship in 1978 .

position Surname change
1 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ray Reardon  
2 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins   1
3 AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton   1
4th EnglandEngland Fred Davis   3
5 EnglandEngland Graham Miles  
6th EnglandEngland Rex Williams   2
7th South Africa 1961South Africa Perrie Mans   6
8th EnglandEngland John Spencer   2
9 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor  
10 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Gary Owen   2
11 EnglandEngland John Dunning   1
12 EnglandEngland Jim Meadowcroft   5
13 CanadaCanada Cliff Thorburn   3
14th CanadaCanada Bill Werbeniuk  
15th EnglandEngland John Pulman   4
16 EnglandEngland David Taylor  
17th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Marcus Owen   1
18th EnglandEngland Bernard Bennett   3
19th AustraliaAustralia Ian Anderson  
20th AustraliaAustralia Warren Simpson   5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ron Florax: Season 1976-1977 - Professional. Cuetracker.net, accessed on May 21, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Chris Turner : Historical World Rankings. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, September 11, 2011, archived from the original on June 8, 2012 ; accessed on May 21, 2018 (English).