1982 Bass and Golden Leisure Classic

Invitational professional snooker event, held 29 May 1982 Bass and Golden Leisure Classic 29 May 1982 Golden Leisure Snooker Centre Liverpool England WPBSA Non-Ranking event £2,150 £750 Paul Medati ENG (97) ENG Rex Williams ENG Ray Edmonds 4–1 First Last The 1982 Bass and Golden Leisure Classic was a professional invitational snooker tournament which took place on 29 May 1982. The tournament was open to professional players who were not ranked in the top sixteen. The competition was held at the Golden Leisure Snooker Centre in Liverpool, and was jointly sponsored by Golden Leisure and Bass-Charrington. It featured 22 professional players.Cue World £750 Golden Leisure for Rex 17 July 1982 The ten qualifying matches were played under a best-of-three frames format, the last-16, quarter-final and semi-final matches best of five, and the final was best of seven. Rex Williams won the event, beating Ray Edmonds 4–1 in the final. Losing semi-finalists Eugene Hughes and Mike Hallett took part in a playoff match for third place, which Hughes won 2–0, making break breaks of 91 and 73. The event had a total prize fund of £2,150.Barrow Chris 21 April 1982 Stars on cue for a hot pot! Liverpool Echo Liverpool 16 Williams received £750 as winner, and Edmonds received £400 as runner-up. Hughes received £150, and Hallett got £80. Paul Medati received £100 for compiling the highest break of the event, 97. Qualifying Twenty players participated in qualifying for the last-16 stage of the event, to which Williams and Edmonds were already 'seeded'. John Phillips, Jim Donnelly and Tommy Murphy withdrew, so George Scott, Dennis Hughes and Clive Everton received walkovers. Round 1 England Mick Fisher 2–1 England Dean Reynolds England Doug French 2–1 England Kingsley Kennerley Ireland Eugene Hughes 2–0 England Jack Fitzmaurice Scotland Murdo MacLeod 2–0 Scotland Ian Black England Paul Medati 2–1 England Les Dodd Northern Ireland Jackie Rea 2–0 England Joe Johnson England Mark Wildman 2–1 Scotland Eddie McLaughlin Main draw no Last 16 Best of 5 frames Quarter-finals Best of 5 frames Semi-finals Best of 5 frames Final Best of 7 frames ENG Ray Edmonds 3 WAL Clive Everton 1 ENG Paul Medati 3 ENG Doug French 1 ENG Mike Hallett 3 ENG Dennis Hughes 2 ENG Mark Wildman 3 SCO Eddie Sinclair 2 IRL Eugene Hughes 3 ENG Mick Fisher 1 ENG Jim Meadowcroft 3 SCO Murdo MacLeod 1 NIR Jackie Rea w/o ENG David Greaves w/d ENG Rex Williams 3 ENG George Scott 1 ENG Ray Edmonds 3 ENG Paul Medati 2 ENG Mike Hallett 3 ENG Mark Wildman 1 IRL Eugene Hughes 3 ENG Jim Meadowcroft 2 NIR Jackie Rea 0 ENG Rex Williams 3 ENG Ray Edmonds 3 ENG Mike Hallett 0 IRL Eugene Hughes 2 ENG Rex Williams 3 ENG Ray Edmonds 1 ENG Rex Williams 4 Third-place playoff Ireland Eugene Hughes 2–0 England Mike Hallett Final Final: Best of 7 frames.Golden Leisure Snooker Centre, Liverpool, England, June 1982. Rex Williams 4–1 Ray Edmonds References Category:Snooker non-ranking competitions Category:Snooker competitions in England Category:1982 in snooker Category:1982 in English sport