The 2012 Australian Goldfields Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 9–15 July 2012 at the Bendigo Stadium in Bendigo, Australia. It was the second ranking event of the 2012/2013 season.
Stuart Bingham was the defending champion, but he lost in the first round 4–5 against Matthew Selt.
Barry Hawkins won his first ranking title by defeating Peter Ebdon 9–3 in the final.
Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Winner: A$70,000 Runner-up: $30,000 Semi-final: $20,000 Quarter-final: $15,000 Last 16: $10,000 Last 32: $7,500 Last 48: $2,000
Non-televised highest break: $500 Televised highest break: $2,500 Total: $435,000
Wildcard round These matches were played in Bendigo on 9 July.
Match Score WC1 5–2 WC2 5–0
Main draw
Final Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Eirian Williams.Bendigo Stadium, Bendigo, Australia, 15 July 2012. Barry Hawkins (14) 9–3 Peter Ebdon (13) Afternoon: 27–69, , , , , , , Evening: 133–0 (133), , , 133 Highest break 63 3 Century breaks 0 7 50+ breaks 1
Qualifying These matches were held between 12 and 15 June 2012 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, England.
Century breaks
Qualifying stage centuries
142, 116, 102 Barry Pinches 140 Mitchell Mann 136, 109 Xiao Guodong 134, 121, 101 Marco Fu 130, 101 Cao Yupeng 130, 101 Jimmy Robertson 126, 121 Liu Chuang 119 Ken Doherty 114, 112 Liang Wenbo 113 Tony Drago
112 James Wattana 108 Tom Ford 104, 102 Michael Wild 104 Jack Lisowski 103 Sam Baird 102 David Gilbert 101 Aditya Mehta 101 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 100 Ian Burns
Televised stage centuries
143, 102 Cao Yupeng 135, 113 Neil Robertson 133, 114, 106, 102 Barry Hawkins 129, 113 Ding Junhui 128 Matthew Stevens 128 Joe Perry
126, 105 Stephen Lee 111 Peter Ebdon 111 Shaun Murphy 108, 108 Marco Fu 106 Rory McLeod 103 Jamie Cope
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