2016 Northern Ireland Open
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. It was the ninth ranking event of the 2016/2017 season. 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. 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. John Higgins made the 123rd official maximum break in the fifth frame of his last 64 match against Sam Craigie. It was Higgins' eight professional maximum break. Mark King won the first ranking title of his career by defeating Barry Hawkins 9–8 in the final. Prize fund. The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £10,000.