The 2017 Scottish Open (officially the 2017 Dafabet Scottish Open) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place from 11 to 17 December 2017 at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, Scotland. It was the twelfth ranking event of the 2017/2018 season and a part of the Home Nations Series.
Marco Fu was the defending champion, but he lost 4–3 to Xiao Guodong in the last 16.
Neil Robertson won the tournament, coming from 4–8 down to win 9–8 in the final against Cao Yupeng. Aside from making it to the final, Cao also made the tournament's highest break, his first professional maximum in the third frame of his first round match against Andrew Higginson.
Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Winner: £70,000 Runner-up: £30,000 Semi-final: £20,000 Quarter-final: £10,000 Last 16: £6,000 Last 32: £3,500 Last 64: £2,500
Highest break: £2,000 Total: £366,000
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £20,000
Main draw
Qualifying round Ross Vallance 4–2 Robert Carlisle
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Finals
Final Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Leo Scullion. Emirates Arena, Glasgow, Scotland, 17 December 2017. Neil Robertson (9) 9–8 Cao Yupeng Afternoon: 21–118 (82), , , , , , , Evening: 31–79 (72), , , , , , , , 132 Highest break 82 1 Century breaks 0 6 50+ breaks 10
Century breaks A total of 73 century breaks were made during the competition.
147 Cao Yupeng 144, 138, 117, 113, 109, 108, 105 John Higgins 144, 122, 114 Noppon Saengkham 143, 138, 135, 132, 128, 124, 118, 117, 114, 113, 102 Neil Robertson 140, 129, 102 Judd Trump 136, 112, 103, 101 Ronnie O'Sullivan 135, 122, 104 Ding Junhui 130 Liang Wenbo 129 Tom Ford 127, 126 Michael White 125, 117 Ali Carter 124, 123 David Grace 123, 106, 101 Xiao Guodong 123 Li Hang 123 Mitchell Mann 122 Chris Wakelin 119, 102, 101 Yan Bingtao 119 Oliver Lines 119 Kyren Wilson 117, 107, 101 Marco Fu 115 Wang Yuchen 113 Dominic Dale 113 Ashley Hugill 112 Joe Perry 110 Ben Woollaston 108 Jamie Jones 106 Stuart Carrington 105 Ricky Walden 104 Zhou Yuelong 104 Elliot Slessor 103 Mark Joyce 103 Xu Si 103 Daniel Wells 103 Gary Wilson 102 Martin Gould 101 Michael Holt 100 Liam Highfield 100 Craig Steadman 100 Zhao Xintong
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