The Strachan Open was a professional snooker

Snooker

Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a green baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regular table is . It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white , 15 worth one point each, and six balls of different :...

 tournament.

The tournament was held in 1992, and was a ranking

Snooker world rankings

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 tournament.

The following season, four so-called minor ranking events were held. These earned only one tenth of the ranking points of most other ranking tournaments, and were designed to encourage the large number of new snooker professionals. Most of the top sixteen players did not bother to enter. Three of the four minor ranking events were Strachan Challenges. The fourth was the Benson & Hedges Championship.

The Strachan Challenges continued for one more season, but did not earn ranking points.

Winners

Year	Winner	Opponent	Final score	Season
Strachan Open (ranking)
1992	James Wattana James Wattana James Wattana is a Thai professional snooker player.-Career:...	John Parrott John Parrott John Parrott MBE is an English professional snooker player and TV personality.He won the World Snooker Championship in 1991, defeating Jimmy White in the final. Two years earlier he had lost 3–18 to Steve Davis, the heaviest final defeat in modern times...	9–5	1991/92
Strachan Challenge (minor ranking)
1993	Joe Swail Joe Swail -External links:*...	Stefan Mazrocis Stefan Mazrocis Stefan Mazrocis is an international standard Dutch amateur snooker player. He was born of Latvian/English parentage, spent his early snooker years of snooker in Leicester, England honing his snooker skills. He has recorded three maximum breaks in a single day...	9–4	1992/93
1993	Troy Shaw Troy Shaw Troy Shaw is an English professional snooker player. Shaw won the second leg of minor ranking tournament the Strachan Challenge in 1993, beating Nigel Bond in the final. He continued as a pro until at least 2000, a year in which he enjoyed a purple patch in the qualifying events -External links:...	Nigel Bond Nigel Bond -External links:*...	9–4	1992/93
1993	Tony Drago Tony Drago Tony Drago is a professional snooker and pool player from Malta. He won the 2003 World Pool Masters Tournament beating Hsia Hui-kai 8–6 and also reached the quarter finals of the World Snooker Championship...	Ken Doherty Ken Doherty Ken Doherty is an Irish professional snooker player. He is the only player ever to have been world amateur and world professional champion...	9–7	1992/93
Strachan Challenge (non-ranking)
1994	Anthony Hamilton Anthony Hamilton (snooker player) Anthony Hamilton is an English professional snooker player noted for his strong break-building technique and distinctive appearance. He has spent five seasons ranked among the game's top 16, and fifteen in the top 32, reaching a career-high at number #10 in the world in the 1999/2000 season...	Andy Hicks Andy Hicks Andy Hicks is an English professional snooker player currently from Cornwall. Hicks, nicknamed "The Cream of Devon", has been a World Snooker Championship semi-finalist and was ranked within the worlds top 32 for many seasons but has never broken into the top 16.-Career:Although a professional...	9–4	1993/94
1994	Anthony Hamilton Anthony Hamilton (snooker player) Anthony Hamilton is an English professional snooker player noted for his strong break-building technique and distinctive appearance. He has spent five seasons ranked among the game's top 16, and fifteen in the top 32, reaching a career-high at number #10 in the world in the 1999/2000 season...	Paul Davies	9–4	1993/94