1989 Scottish Professional Championship

April 2022 1989 Scottish Professional Championship 1989 02 1 1989 02 19 y Marco's Leisure Centre Edinburgh Scotland WPBSA Non-Ranking event £6,000 £2,000 John Rea (147) John Rea Murdo MacLeod 9–7 1988 2011 The 1989 Scottish Professional Championship was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament which took place in February 1989 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The tournament featured eight exclusively Scottish professional players. The quarter-final and semi-final matches were contested over the best of 9 frames, and the final as best of seventeen. Defending champion Stephen Hendry did not enter; his manager Ian Doyle said that this was because Hendry was "in a different class" to the other Scottish professional players. The 1989 tournament was the last for twenty-two years, before its revival in 2011. John Rea won the event, beating Murdo MacLeod 9–7 in the final. In his earlier match against Ian Black, Rea compiled a 147 maximum break. It was the first maximum break achieved in a tournament in Scotland,No prize for Rea's maximum effort The Glasgow Herald 18 February 1989 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ozNAAAAAIBAJ&pg=6176,5336632 22 November 2021 22 November 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211122112704/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ozNAAAAAIBAJ&pg=6176%2C5336632 live and was also his first competitive century break. The title was the first, and only, of Rea's career. Main draw Morrison John Maximum break, minimum prize for John Rea Snooker Scene April 1989 7 Quarter-finalsBest of 9 frames Semi-finalsBest of 9 frames FinalBest of 17 frames Murdo MacLeod 5 Eddie McLaughlin 0 Matt Gibson 5 Eddie Sinclair 4 John Rea 5 Ian Black 3 Jim Donnelly 5 Bert Demarco 1 Murdo MacLeod 5 Matt Gibson 1 John Rea 5 Jim Donnelly 1 Murdo MacLeod 7 John Rea 9 Final Final: Best of 17 frames.Marco's Leisure Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, 19 February 1989. John Rea 9–7 Murdo MacLeod 19–88(59), 68–41, 74–44, 61–53, 41–69, 28–69(50), 1–73, 73–7, 75(74)–28, 69–21, 18–79, 65–43, 42–73, 59–62(55), 62–31, 71–61 74 Highest break 59 0 Century breaks 0 1 50+ breaks 3 Century breaks 147, 142 John Rea 109 Ian Black References Category:Scottish Professional Championship Scottish Professional Championship Scottish Professional Championship Scottish Professional Championship Category:Sports competitions in Edinburgh