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Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 3

snooker tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ2565462 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 3 (also known as Star Xing Pai Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 3 for sponsorship purposes) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 6–8 August 2010 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, England. The preliminary rounds took place on 24 July at the same venue.

Barry Hawkins made the 72nd official maximum break during his last 32 match against James McGouran. This was Hawkins' first official 147.

Tom Ford won his first professional title by defeating Jack Lisowski 4–0 in the final.

Prize fund and ranking points

The breakdown of prize money and ranking points of the event is shown below:

1 Only professional players can earn ranking points.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 3” as snooker tournament. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Players, Tour and Championship can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as snooker tournament. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 3” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.