Hargreaves turned professional in 1983. He was beaten in his first matches in the qualifying rounds of the 1983 Professional Players Tournament (0–5 by Mario Morra), the 1983 UK Championship (4–9 by Ian Williamson and the 1984 World Snooker Championship (5–10 to Eddie McLaughlin. He did however record wins over Warren King (5–3) and Billy Kelly (5–4) in the qualifying rounds of the 1984 Classic before losing 1–5 to Mark Wildman in the third qualifying round. Having failed to gain any ranking points, we was unranked in the &lt;a href="snooker%20world%20rankings%201984/1985"&gt;snooker world rankings 1984/1985&lt;/a&gt;.