It was the end of a new Open tour’s first year in business. Herman Parker, tour director of the handicapped, PremierBilliards.com’s Q City 9-Ball Tour since 2012, had been fielding requests for an Open (non-handicapped) tour almost from the beginning. And though he’d ‘tested the waters’ with individual Open events here and there, he jumped into it solidly this past year, mounting nine events on the Premierbilliards.com’s TOP (The Open Players) Tour, including this past weekend’s (Dec. 2-3) inaugural, season-ending TOP Tour Open Championships. “The tour averaged 42 players per event” he noted in a Facebook post, “and I feel good about the future of the tour.” “I will be expanding the area of the tour,” he added, “bringing events to more locations in 2024.” For his inaugural Open Championships, Parker returned to a room that has been a supporter of the Q City 9-Ball Tour and the Open tour since it launched earlier this year, Breaktime Billiards in Winston-Salem, NC. The $2,000-added event drew 36 entrants there this past weekend and featured some of the more recognizable mid-Atlantic names in the sport, including (in finish order) Joey Tate, Josh Roberts, BJ Ussery, Jr., and Mike Davis, Jr.
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