Shawn Budd


Shawn Budd, is a professional snooker 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. In 2002 he was a quarter finalist in the IBSF World Billiards Championships. In 1994 he won the Valley National Open 8-ball tournament in Las Vegas 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.
He has a son named Parker and Budd's cousin is actor/director Michael Budd and Dustin Budd

Career

Early career

Turned professional in 1992.

1995/1999