World Open

The World Open, currently known as the Golden Cue World Open for sponsorship purposes, is a professional snooker ranking event, which has been held since the 2009/10 season. Unlike other ranking events, the World Open is a much shorter format (best of five frames to the final, best of nine in the final), and also includes 32 amateur players to make a field of 128 (including the top 96 tour players), the largest field of any ranking tournament.

The reigning champion is Mark Selby. * For the 2013/14 season, the World Open was moved from its usual slot on the tournament calendar in November, to the end of January. Therefore, there was no World Open held in 2013, but the 2013/14 version was held in early 2014.