1981 Australian Masters

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Australian Masters

Tournament information
Dates	June 1981
Venue	Tattersalls Club
City	Sydney
Country	Australia
Organisation	WPBSA
Format	Non-Ranking event
Total prize fund	$60,000
Final
Champion	Tony Meo
Runner-up	John Spencer
Score	Aggregate Score
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The 1981 Winfield Australian Masters was a professional invitational snooker tournament which took place in June 1981. The tournament was held at Tattersalls Club in Sydney, Australia between 25 June and 27 June 1981.

The tournament was sponsored by Winfield and had a total prize fund of $60,000. There were two qualifying groups, played on a round-robin basis, with the top two players from each group progressing to the semi-finals. The final was decided on aggregated points scored over three frames. The event was recorded for broadcast on Channel 2, with transmissions running from 8 September 1981 to 10 November 1981.^[1]

There were four players in each group:

Group A	Group B
John Spencer	Dennis Taylor
Tony Meo	Cliff Thorburn
Doug Mountjoy	Eddie Charlton
Paddy Morgan	Ian Anderson

Eighteenth-ranked Tony Meo won his first title as a professional by defeating world number fourteen John Spencer over three frames in the final.^[2] The winning aggregate score is unknown.

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