The 2012 Players Tour Championship Grand Final (officially the 2012 Betfair Players Tour Championship Grand Final)[1] was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 14 and 18 March 2012 at the Bailey Allen Hall in Galway, Ireland.[2]
Shaun Murphy was the defending champion,[3][4] but he finished 37th on the Order of Merit,[5][6] and didn't qualify.[7]
Stephen Lee won his fifth ranking title by defeating Neil Robertson 4–0 in the final. It was Lee's first ranking title for six years, and Robertson's first defeat in a televised final.[8]
It was also the final tournament he won in his professional snooker career, before Stephen was given a 12-year ban from the sport later that year, after his suspicious match-fixing and betting patterns arose.[9]
The breakdown of prize money and ranking points of the event is shown below:[7][10]
The leading 24 players in the PTC Order of Merit qualified for the event, provided that they had played in at least 6 events (3 in the UK and 3 in Europe).[6]
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