2016 Northern Ireland Open

The 2016 Northern Ireland Open (officially the 2016 Coral Northern Ireland Open) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 14 and 20 November 2016 at the Titanic Exhibition Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland.^[1] It was the ninth ranking event of the 2016/2017 season.^[2]

2016 Coral Northern Ireland Open

Tournament information
Dates	14–20 November 2016
Venue	Titanic Exhibition Centre
City	Belfast
Country	Northern Ireland
Organisation	World Snooker
Format	Ranking event
Total prize fund	£366,000[1]
Winner's share	£70,000
Highest break	John Higgins (SCO) (147)
Final
Champion	Mark King (ENG)
Runner-up	Barry Hawkins (ENG)
Score	9–8
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This was the inaugural Northern Ireland Open event, being held as part of a new Home Nations Series introduced in the 2016/2017 season with the existing Welsh Open and new English Open and Scottish Open tournaments.^[3][4] The winner of the Northern Ireland Open is awarded the Alex Higgins Trophy which is named in honour of Northern Irish two-time world champion Alex Higgins.^[5]

Mark King won the first ranking title of his career by defeating Barry Hawkins 9–8 in the final.^[6][7]

John Higgins made the 123rd official maximum break in the fifth frame of his last 64 match against Sam Craigie. It was Higgins' eighth professional maximum.^[8]

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:^[9]

The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £10,000.

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