List of UK Open Billiards Championship winners

Joe Davis won the inaugural UK Professional English Billiards Championship title with a 18,745–18,309 defeat of Tom Newman.

[1][2] The tournament was originally organised by the Billiards Association and Control Council (BA&CC).

[6] Walter Lindrum had won the World Professional Championship in 1933, and insisted that the competition should be held in Australia for his defence.

[8] After a further hiatus from 2002, World Billiards, a WPBSA-affiliated organisation, reinstituted the tournament as an open event in 2015.

Causier has taken three titles, and the only other players to have won the tournament more than once are two-time champions Williams, Robby Foldvari, and Roxton Chapman.

A head and shoulders portrait of Tom Newman
Tom Newman (pictured in 1930) was runner-up to Joe Davis each year from 1934 to 1939.
Peter Gilchrist playing billiards
Peter Gilchrist (pictured in 2015) won the title in 2018, having previously finished as runner-up on three occasions.
A large conference centre, situated behind a beach
In the hope of attracting television coverage, the 2000 final was held as a short-format contest at the Bournemouth International Centre during the 2000 UK Snooker Championship which was being televised from the venue. Billiards and snooker historian Clive Everton mocked this ambition, noting that there were only 15 spectators at the billiards, and imagined a television announcer introducing "a game none of you understand, played by two people you've never heard of". [ 11 ]