2011 Australian Goldfields Open

The 2011 Australian Goldfields Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 18 and 24 July 2011 at the Bendigo Stadium in Bendigo, Australia.

The event was last held in 1995 under the name Australian Masters, where Anthony Hamilton defeated Chris Small 8–6 in the final. However, Hamilton withdrew from the tournament in the qualifying rounds citing personal reasons and therefore did not compete to defend his title.

Stuart Bingham won the first ranking title of his career by defeating Mark Williams 9–8 in the final.

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


 * Winner: $60,000
 * Runner-up: $30,000
 * Semi-final: $20,000
 * Quarter-final: $15,000
 * Last 16: $10,000
 * Last 32: $7,500
 * Last 48: $2,000


 * Stage one highest break: $500
 * Stage two highest break: $2,500
 * Total: $425,000

Qualifying
These matches took place between 26 and 30 June 2011 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, England. David Gilbert was the only player to go through all four rounds of qualifying to make it to the main stage.

Best of 9 frames
 * Preliminary round


 * Round 1–4

Qualifying stage centuries

 * 141, 101 – Ian McCulloch
 * 137, 111 – Barry Hawkins
 * 137 – Liu Chuang
 * 136, 111, 100 – Robin Hull
 * 136 – Mark Davis
 * 134 – Dominic Dale
 * 126 – Mark Joyce
 * 125 – Barry Pinches
 * 123 – Ben Woollaston
 * 122, 113 – David Gilbert
 * 122 – Adrian Gunnell
 * 118 – Aditya Mehta


 * 117 – Jack Lisowski
 * 115 – Liam Highfield
 * 115 – Michael Holt
 * 114, 100 – Matthew Selt
 * 114 – Passakorn Suwannawat
 * 114 – Stuart Bingham
 * 113, 110, 107, 104 – Tian Pengfei
 * 112 – Kurt Maflin
 * 110 – Ben Woollaston
 * 104 – Jamie Burnett
 * 103 – Michael White
 * 100 – Liang Wenbo

Televised stage centuries

 * 142, 140, 118, 110, 106 – Mark Williams
 * 139, 118, 114, 112, 107 – Stuart Bingham
 * 137 – Matthew Selt
 * 134 – Ali Carter
 * 124, 104 – Ding Junhui
 * 123 – Dominic Dale
 * 120, 111 – Liang Wenbo
 * 120 – Stephen Hendry
 * 111, 101 – Neil Robertson
 * 102 – Jamie Cope
 * 101, 100 – Mark Allen
 * 100 – Rory McLeod