The
World Snooker Tour
The World Snooker Tour (WST) is the main professional snooker tour, consisting of approximately 128 players competing on a circuit of up to 28 tournaments each season. The World Snooker Tour is administered by World Snooker Ltd, the commercial ar ...
makes annual awards in several categories, including player of the year, and established a Hall of Fame in 2011.
The Association of Snooker Writers, a grouping of journalists who wrote about
snooker
Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sports, cue sport played on a Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, rectangular table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets, one at each corner and o ...
, was founded in 1981. In 1983, they instituted awards for players and others associated with the game, and made another set of awards in 1984. From 1985, the awards were taken over by the
World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association
The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) is the governing body of professional snooker and English billiards based in Bristol, England. It owns and publishes the official rules of the two sports and engages in promotion ...
. In 1998, the journalists' group was reformed as the Snooker Writers' Association, and the awards were in that body's name for several years.
The awards are now administered by the World Snooker Tour.
Player of the year and miscellaneous awards
Services to snooker award
Achievement of the year
Special awards
Hall of fame
The
World Snooker
The World Snooker Tour (WST) is the main professional snooker tour, consisting of approximately 128 players competing on a circuit of up to 28 tournaments each season. The World Snooker Tour is administered by World Snooker Ltd, the commercial ar ...
hall of fame was instituted in 2011, with eight winners of multiple world snooker championships as the initial inductees.
Notes
References
Sources
*{{cite book , last=Morrison , first=Ian , date=1987 , title=The Hamlyn Encyclopedia of Snooker – revised edition , location=Twickenham , publisher=Hamlyn Publishing Group , isbn=978-0-600-55604-6
External links
Who's in the Snooker Hall of Fame (2022)(World Snooker)
Virgo Joins Snooker Hall of Fame (2023)(World Snooker)
Snooker-related lists