The 1980 Professional Ticket Event was a snooker main tour qualifying event held by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), which took place from 7 to 13 December 1980. The tournament was played at the Snooker Centre in Sheffield, Yorkshire, and featured eight invited amateur players who hoped to qualify to compete on the main tour as professionals for the following season.[1][2] It was promoted by Mike Watterson on behalf of the WPBSA.[3]
Dave Martin won the tournament, beating Eugene Hughes 9–6 in the final.[3] Hughes recorded the highest break of the event, 132, in the 13th frame of the final.[3]
At the time of the tournament, the WPBSA had a policy that only winners of the World Amateur Snooker Championship, the English Amateur Championship or a Professional Ticket event would be admitted as professional players. This was changed so that "established amateur international snooker players and winners of prestigious amateur titles"[4]: 10 would also be considered, and by February 1981, Watterson, Hughes and Paul Medati had all been accepted as professionals, along with Jack Fitzmaurice (who had withdrawn from the Professional Ticket Event because he felt it was an unfair system) and Dessie Sheehan. Billy Kelly and Mick Fisher had applied but were rejected.[5][3][4]
^"Vic Harris: trying for his ticket". Snooker Scene. October 1980. p. 12.
^"...and Eugene's". Belfast Telegraph. 4 October 1980. p. 17.
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^ ab"WPBSA see the light". Snooker Scene. February 1981. pp. 10–11.
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