2015 Australian Goldfields Open

The 2015 Australian Goldfields Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 29 June and 5 July 2015 at the Bendigo Stadium in Bendigo, Australia. It was the first ranking event of the 2015/2016 season.

Judd Trump was the defending champion, but he lost 1–5 against Stephen Maguire in the quarter-finals.

John Higgins defeated Martin Gould 9–8 in the final to win the 27th ranking title of his career.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

• Winner: $75,000
• Runner-up: $32,000
• Semi-final: $20,000
• Quarter-final: $17,000
• Last 16: $12,000
• Last 32: $9,000
• Last 48: $2,000
• Last 64: $1000
• Last 96: $500

• Non-televised highest break: $100
• Televised highest break: $2,500
• Total: $521,600

Wildcard round

Main draw

Final

Qualifying stages

The qualifying stages for this event took place at K2 in Crawley, England between 1–5 June 2015.

Century breaks

Qualifying stage centuries

• 133 Michael Wasley
• 132, 127 Zhang Anda
• 132 Allan Taylor
• 130 Andrew Higginson
• 130 David Morris
• 127 David Grace
• 122 Ian Glover
• 118, 104, 101 Chris Wakelin
• 115, 100 Kyren Wilson
• 113 Zhao Xintong
• 110, 100 Barry Pinches
• 109 James Cahill
• 108 Ken Doherty
• 107, 102 Rory McLeod

• 106 Chen Zhe
• 106 Peter Ebdon
• 105 Andrew Higginson
• 105 Peter Lines
• 104 Daniel Wells
• 104 Mike Dunn
• 102 David Gilbert
• 101 Michael Leslie
• 101 Ian Burns
• 100 Rhys Clark
• 100 Jamie Cope
• 100 Hammad Miah
• 100 Jamie Burnett

Televised stage centuries

• 142 Ricky Walden
• 141 Mark Selby
• 138, 122, 109, 101, 100 Martin Gould
• 137 Joe Perry
• 136 Robert Milkins
• 134, 133, 112 John Higgins
• 132 Jamie Jones
• 128 Fergal O'Brien
• 114, 111, 102 Judd Trump
• 114 Ali Carter
• 106 Mark Joyce

References