2011 Australian Goldfields Open
The 2011 Australian Goldfields Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 18–24 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 sighting 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
Main draw
Final
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.
;Preliminary round
Best of 9 frames
;Round 1–4Century breaks
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
