The Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Event 5 was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 21 and 25 September 2011 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, England.

Andrew Higginson won his first professional title by defeating John Higgins 4–1 in the final.

Prize fund and ranking points The breakdown of prize money and ranking points of the event is shown below: Prize fund Ranking points1 Winner £10,000 2,000 Runner-up £5,000 1,600 Semi-finalist £2,500 1,280 Quarter-finalist £1,500 1,000 Last 16 £1,000 760 Last 32 £600 560 Last 64 £200 360 Total £50,000 – 1 Only professional players can earn ranking points.

Main draw

Preliminary rounds

Round 1 Best of 7 frames

Sam Harvey 4–2 Shane Castle Phil O'Kane 0–4 Sydney Wilson David Gray 4–2 Michael Wild Joel Walker 4–3 Shaun Wilkes Marc Harman 1–4 James Murdoch Bash Maqsood 3–4 Mike Hallett Jonathan Birch 4–1 Clark Lillyman Rogelio Esteiro 0–4 Antony Parsons Matthew Day 3–4 Martin O'Donnell Michael Leslie Terry Challenger Chen Zhe 4–3 Alex Davies 4–2 Martin Ball Kishan Hirani 4–3 Steve Ventham Duane Jones 4–1 Ian Stark John Whitty 4–0 Kashif Khan Jamie Curtis-Barrett 1–4 Stephen Craigie Stephen John Barton 0–4 Ben Harrison James Silverwood w/d–w/o Justin Astley Jamie Green 0–4 Chris Norbury Gareth Allen 2–4 Les Dodd Zak Surety 4–2 Dessie Sheehan Robert Tickner 1–4 James Hill Robert James 4–1 David Singh

Jordan Winbourne 4–1 Ross Jones Jamie O'Neill 4–0 Hasan Khan Patrick Wallace 4–1 James Cahill Alan Edmonds 2–4 Eden Sharav Saqib Nasir 2–4 Marc Davis Michael Wasley 4–1 Jamie Clarke Sachin Plaha 3–4 Nico Elton Mitchell Travis 4–3 Oliver Lines Hans Blanckaert 4–1 Oliver Brown Kyren Wilson 4–0 Ashley Carty John Sutton 4–0 Brent Kolbeck Richard King 3–4 Tom Maxfield James Brown 2–4 Lee Page Zhang Anda 4–2 Alex Taubman Brian Morgan 1–4 Allan Taylor Lee Farebrother 4–3 David Birley Danny Brindle 1–4 Nick Jennings Douglas Hogan 4–1 Nikolas Charalambous Mitchell Mann Tony Knowles Elliot Slessor 3–4 Najmur Khan Liam Monk 1–4 Ian Glover Omer Butt 1–4 Sean Hopkin George Marter 2–4 Ricky Norris

Round 2 Best of 7 frames

Sam Harvey 4–2 Sydney Wilson David Gray 4–3 Joel Walker James Murdoch 1–4 Mike Hallett Ian Burns 4–0 Jonathan Birch Jake Nicholson 3–4 Antony Parsons Martin O'Donnell 4–0 Michael Leslie Chen Zhe 1–4 Ryan Causton 0–4 Kishan Hirani Duane Jones 4–3 John Whitty Stephen Craigie 4–0 Ben Harrison Justin Astley 2–4 Chris Norbury Les Dodd 4–2 Zak Surety Jak Jones 4–3 James Hill Robert James 4–3 Jordan Winbourne

Jamie O'Neill 1–4 Patrick Wallace Eden Sharav 4–2 Marc Davis Michael Wasley 4–0 Nico Elton Reanne Evans 2–4 Mitchell Travis Hans Blanckaert 2–4 Kyren Wilson Andrew Milliard 2–4 John Sutton James McGouran 4–1 Tom Maxfield Lee Page 0–4 Zhang Anda Allan Taylor 4–1 Lee Farebrother Nick Jennings 3–4 Douglas Hogan Mitchell Mann 4–1 Najmur Khan Ashley Wright 4–3 Ian Glover Sean O’Sullivan 4–2 Sean Hopkin Christopher Keogan 4–1 Ricky Norris

Main rounds

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Finals

Century breaks Only from last 128 onwards.

141, 105 David Gilbert 138, 128, 112, 107 Neil Robertson 137 Liu Song 137 Dave Harold 135, 129 Mark King 133, 115, 107 Barry Hawkins 132, 108 Michael Holt 132 Michael White 128, 112 Martin Gould 126, 113 Jimmy Robertson 125, 100 Ryan Day 125 Shaun Murphy 125 Anthony McGill 117, 105 Graeme Dott 117 Andrew Higginson 115, 102 Robert Milkins 114 Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon

114 Liu Chuang 113 Robbie Williams 113 John Sutton 110, 102 Ken Doherty 110 Jamie Burnett 108 Paul Davison 106, 100 Tom Ford 106 Matthew Selt 105, 105, 103 John Higgins 105 Ding Junhui 104 Rory McLeod 103 Judd Trump 102 Ricky Walden 102 Sam Baird 101 Barry Pinches 101 Alan McManus 100 Gerard Greene

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