Shawn Budd (born 2 March 1974 in Sydney, Australia), is an Australian former snooker player and pool player that has won major snooker and pool tournaments in Australia, New Zealand, England and America. He is the only Australian snooker player ever to win the Australian Open Snooker, Australian National Snooker, Australian 9-ball and 8-ball titles. Also he has won the Oceania Snooker championships and was runner up in the Oceania Billiards Championship in the same year.[1] In 2002 he was a quarter finalist in the IBSF World Billiards Championships (50 up). In 1994 he won the Valley National Open 8-ball tournament in Las Vegas (over 5000 entries) and in 2001 he won the Masters 8-ball event. The event is now called the World Pool Championships.
Life
Budd grew up in the Sydney suburb of Coogee. His grandfather, from Liverpool, England, first taught Shawn how to play snooker.
Winner of the 1999 $100,000 8 ball Challenge – The largest prize money tournament ever held in Australia
2000/2005
2000,2002,2004 Australian Open Snooker Champion
2001 VNEA 8-ball Masters Champion Las Vegas
2004 R/up Australian National Snooker Championships
2006/2016
2006 NSW state 8 ball Champion
2007 R/Up Central Coast – Beaten by world number 1 Neil Robertson
2007 Semi finalist Australian 9 ball
2007 The first ever Australian Open Scotch Doubles Champions – Stuart Lawler and Shawn Budd- nominated to represent Australian in Rotterdam, September 2007
2007 Runner up Australian National snooker championships
2008–2009 Fred Osbourne Albury Championship winner
