Scott MacKenzie (born July 21, 1980) is an Scottish professional snooker player who lives in Renfrewshire. His first appearance at a ranking event came at the 2004 Daily Record Players Championship. He beat James Wattana in the final qualifying round before losing 5-1 to Marco Fu in the first round proper.
The Scot appeared in the last 16 of a ranking event for the first time in his career at the 2006 China Open. He won four qualifying matches to secure a place in the tournament, culminating in a 5-2 defeat of Ian McCulloch. In Beijing, he saw off wild card Li Hang 5-2 then stunned Matthew Stevens 5-4 before losing 5-0 to eventual champion Mark Williams.
MacKenzie enjoyed a superb run in last season's UK Championship with wins over Dene O'Kane and Tom Ford in the qualifiers which set up a last 48 meeting with Michael Holt whom he defeated 9-0. That set-up a clash with reigning 888.com World Champion Graeme Dott and marked his first appearance in a televised match. MacKenzie's journey ended there as Dott ran out a 9-2 winner. The remainder of the season was a disappointment, however, as he was unable to repeat that run and fell three places in the rankings to No 63.
MacKenzie revealed that he had previously almost quit snooker and even ditched his cue. “After one particularly bad performance I threw my cue away," said the Glaswegian. "But my dad convinced me to keep trying. I borrowed a cue from Martin Dziewialtowski and that has really changed things for me.”
MacKenzie is also a part-time butcher.
External links
Profile at worldsnooker.com
NewPP limit report
Preprocessor node count: 356/1000000
Post-expand include size: 3040/2048000 bytes
Template argument size: 1007/2048000 bytes
Expensive parser function count: 0/500
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_MacKenzie_(snooker)"
Categories: 1980 births | Living people | Scottish snooker players
Views
Article
Discussion
Edit this page
History
Personal tools
Log in / create account
if (window.isMSIE55) fixalpha();
Navigation
Main page
Contents
Featured content
Current events
Random article
Search
Interaction
About Wikipedia
Community portal
Recent changes
Contact Wikipedia
Donate to Wikipedia
Help
Toolbox
What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Printable version Permanent linkCite this page
This page was last modified on 14 September 2008, at 22:50.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity.
Privacy policy
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();
