Scott MacKenzie (born 21 July 1980) is a
Scottish former professional
snooker player
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who lives in
Renfrewshire
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Located in the west central Lowlands, it is one of three council areas contained within the boundaries of the historic county of Re ...
.
Career
MacKenzie's first appearance at a ranking event came at the 2004
Daily Record Players Championship. He beat
James Wattana
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in the final qualifying round before losing 5–1 to
Marco Fu
Marco Fu Ka-chun, MH, JP (, born 8 January 1978) is a Hong Kong professional snooker player. He is a three-time snooker world rankings, ranking event winner, having won the 2007 Grand Prix (snooker), 2007 Grand Prix, the 2013 Australian ...
in the first round proper. He reached the last 16 of a ranking event for the first time in his career at the
2006 China Open. He won four qualifying matches to secure a place in the tournament, culminating in a 5–2 defeat of
Ian McCulloch. In
Beijing
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, he saw off wildcard
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* Li Hang (footballer) (李行, born 1989), Chinese association footballer
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5–2 then stunned
Matthew Stevens
Matthew Stevens (born 11 September 1977) is a Welsh professional snooker player. He has won two of the game's Triple Crown events, the Masters in 2000 and the UK Championship in 2003. He has also been a two-time runner-up in the other triple ...
5–4 before losing 5–0 to eventual champion
Mark Williams.
MacKenzie enjoyed a superb run in the
2006 UK Championship
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with wins over
Dene O'Kane
Dene O'Kane (born 24 February 1963) is a former professional snooker player from Auckland, New Zealand.
Career
O'Kane won the 1980 New Zealand Amateur Championship, and represented New Zealand at the 1982 IBSF World Snooker Championship, winn ...
and
Tom Ford
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in the qualifiers which set up a last 48 meeting with
Michael Holt whom he defeated 9–0. He then played reigning world champion
Graeme Dott
Graeme Dott (born 12 May 1977) is a Scottish professional snooker player and snooker coach from Larkhall. He turned professional in 1994 and first entered the top 16 in 2001. He has won two ranking titles, the 2006 World Snooker Championship a ...
in his first appearance in a televised match. MacKenzie's journey ended there as Dott ran out a 9–2 winner. The remainder of the season was a disappointment, however, as he was unable to repeat that run and fell three places in the rankings to world number 63.
MacKenzie revealed that he had previously almost quit
snooker and even ditched his cue. "After one particularly bad performance I threw my cue away. But my dad convinced me to keep trying. I borrowed a cue from
Martin Dziewialtowski and that has really changed things for me."
At the
2009 World Championship MacKenzie announced that if he did not qualify for the event he would hang up his cue and retire from the game for good:
"I'll try not to think about it and I'll approach it the way I would any normal tournament.
..But I imagine if I'm sitting in the chair one frame away from getting beat and knowing it is my last ever tournament, there will be a few things swirling around my head." Mackenzie lost in the first qualifying round, 10–9 to Wayne Cooper.
His best run of form in the
2011–12 season came in qualifying for the first ranking event, the
Australian Goldfields Open
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History
Australia had previously hosted the 1971 and 1975 World Snooker Championships, as well as several other high-pr ...
. He beat
Stuart Carrington
Stuart Carrington (born 14 May 1990) is an English professional snooker player. He practises frequently with Steven Hallworth and Ian Glover in Grimsby.
In May 2011, Carrington qualified for the 2011–12 professional Main Tour as one of four ...
,
Andy Hicks
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and
Tony Drago
Tony Drago (born 22 September 1965) is a Maltese former professional snooker and pool player.
Known for his speed around the table, during his snooker career he won two professional titles: the 1993 Strachan Challenge Event 3 and the 1996 G ...
, before losing to former world champion
Ken Doherty
Ken Doherty (born 17 September 1969) is an Irish professional snooker player, commentator and radio presenter.
As an amateur, Doherty won the Irish Amateur Championship twice, the World Under-21 Amateur Championship and the World Amateur C ...
5–2 in the final qualifying round.
MacKenzie played in 10 of the 12 minor-ranking
Players Tour Championship
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events throughout the season reaching, but not progressing past, the last 32 on three occasions. Following his participation in the final PTC event in December, MacKenzie did not enter another tournament.
He finished the season outside of the top 64 who retain their places and did not have a spot on the main tour for the
2012–13 season. MacKenzie has not played in a professional tournament since.
References
Profile at worldsnooker.com
External links
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Profile on Pro Snooker BlogProfile on global-snooker.com
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Scottish snooker players
1980 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
People from Renfrewshire