| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | September 1976 |
| Venue | Dandanong Football Club |
| City | Melbourne |
| Country | Australia |
| Organisation | WPBSA |
| Format | Non-ranking event |
| Final | |
| Champion |  Eddie Charlton |
| Runner-up | Paddy Morgan |
| ← 1975 1977 → | |
The 1976 Australian Professional Championship was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament, which took place in September 1976.
Eddie Charlton won the tournament after the other finalist Paddy Morgan withdrew from the tournament in protest of Charlton being allowed to use his own personal set of snooker balls alongside his own choice of table.
Main draw
| Quarter-finals Best of 29 frames | Semi-finals Best of 37 frames | Final | ||||||||||||
| Eddie Charlton
| 15 | |||||||||||||
| Lou Condo
| 3 | Eddie Charlton
| 19 | |||||||||||
| Gary Owen
| 15 | Gary Owen
| 6 | |||||||||||
| Ian Anderson
| 11 | Eddie Charlton
| w/o | |||||||||||
| Paddy Morgan
| 15 | Paddy Morgan
| w/d | |||||||||||
| Ron Mares
| 12 | Paddy Morgan
| 19 | |||||||||||
| Warren Simpson
| 15 | Warren Simpson
| 11 | |||||||||||
| Dennis Wheelwright
| 13 | |||||||||||||
References
- "Other National Professional Championships". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 7 January 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
- ^ "1976 Australian Professional Championship Results Grid". Snooker Database. Archived from the original on 22 February 2018. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
- ^ "Not so good, Eddie". Snooker Scene. January 1977. p. 23.
- "Professional snooker matches set". The Sydney Morning Herald. 21 Sep 1976. p. 16.
| 1976–77 snooker season | |
|---|---|
| Ranking events | |
| Non-ranking events | |