2005 Grand Prix (snooker)

The 2005 Royal London Watches Grand Prix was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 8 and 16 October 2005 at the Guild Hall in Preston, England.

John Higgins won in the final 9–2 against Ronnie O'Sullivan. In the final, Higgins set two records: His century breaks in the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth frames marked the first time a player had ever recorded centuries in four consecutive frames in a match during a ranking tournament. He scored 494 points without reply, the greatest number in any professional snooker tournament, until Ding Junhui made 495 points without reply against Stephen Hendry in the league stage of the 2007 Premier League.

Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

Winner: £60,000

Runner-up: £30,000

Semi-final: £15,000

Quarter-final: £11,000

Last 16: £7,000

Last 32: £5,000

Last 64: £3,000

Highest break: £4,000

Maximum break: £20,000

Total: £400,000

Qualifying
Qualifying for the tournament took place between 27 and 28 September 2005 at Pontin's in Prestatyn, Wales. All matches were best of 9 frames.

Qualifying stage centuries

 * 136 – Patrick Wallace
 * 136 – Dominic Dale
 * 130, 118 – Ding Junhui
 * 125 – Stuart Bingham
 * 122 – Andrew Norman
 * 121 – Jamie Burnett
 * 114 – Matthew Couch
 * 113 – Chris Norbury

Televised stage centuries

 * 145, 141, 123 – Barry Hawkins
 * 140 – Mark King
 * 139, 127, 120 – Shaun Murphy
 * 138, 132, 128, 126, 104, 103, 102 – John Higgins
 * 135 – Bjorn Haneveer
 * 134 – Anthony Hamilton
 * 129, 115, 111, 107 – Stephen Hendry
 * 128, 117, 113, 100 – Ronnie O'Sullivan
 * 123 – Mark Williams


 * 122 – Neil Robertson
 * 118, 116 – Gerard Greene
 * 118, 105 – Jimmy White
 * 117 – Chris Norbury
 * 113, 101, 100 – Stuart Bingham
 * 106 – Andy Hicks
 * 106 – Fergal O'Brien
 * 102 – Stephen Maguire