2017 Northern Ireland Open


The 2017 Dafabet Northern Ireland Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 20–26 November 2017 in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the tenth ranking event of the 2017/2018 season and a part of the Home Nations Series. It was the second edition of the Northern Ireland Open.
Mark King was the defending champion, but he was beaten 1–4 in the third round by Yan Bingtao. By reaching the final Yan became the youngest ever finalist of a ranking event.
Mark Williams won the 19th ranking title of his career, beating Yan Bingtao 9–8 in the final. Williams had to come from 7–8 behind to win and denied Yan becoming the youngest ever winner of a ranking event. Ronnie O'Sullivan still holds that record for the 1993 UK Championship.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £10,000

Main draw

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Finals

Final

Century breaks

Total: 53