The tournament, featuring only the 32 players leading the one year list, was held in the Preston Guildhall from February 6th to 12th 2017. Only three Grove players were involved: Yu Delu, Judd and Neil. Yu lost in the last 32 to Ding Junhui. Neil and Judd both fell to the eventual champion, Barry Hawkins, Judd in the last 16, Neil in the QF.

The main event was played in the Tempodrom in Berlin from 1 to 5 February 2017 and Neil was the only player who had survived the qualifying rounds to make the trip. Unfortunately he lost in the last 32 to Ben Woollaston, by 5-4.
All detailed results are available on Cuetracker.

The China Open 2017 last 128 round was played in Preston from January 24 to 27, 2017. All players who entered needed to win one match to book their spot in the main event to be played in Beijing in March 2017. Neil didn’t enter the event. Judd has his match held over because he is the defending champion. All other Grove players were involved: Zhang Anda, Yu Delu and Li Hang are through to the last 64 and China bound. Zhang in fact beat Oliver Lines. And James Cahill …

Neil and Judd were the only two Grove players involved in the prestigious tournament, held in Alexandra Palace, London, from 15 to 22 January 2017. Judd lost by 6-5 in the last 16 to an inspired Marco Fu, Neil went one better but lost by 6-3 in the QF to Ronnie O’Sullivan, the Defending Champion and eventual winner.

Neil, Judd, World Champion and World n°1 Mark Selby and Shaun Murphy headed to the beautiful capital of Slovenia for what proved be a great exhibition, played on the only snooker table in the country. Mark beat Neil in the final, with Shaun donning the white gloves.