Karl Sutton completed an outstanding 2018 UK Pool Tour season by finishing top of both the Tour and Challenge rankings.
Karl Sutton tops both 2018 rankings
Sutton won Tours 3 and 4 and collected three Challenge titles during the season. At the final Challenge event he beat Dom Cooney 6–4 after defeating World Masters champion Callum Singleton 5–0, Neil Davey 5–2 and Sam Bircher 5–4 in the earlier knockout rounds.
He finished the Tour standings on 58 points, six ahead of Phil Harrison, and the Challenge standings on 62 points, 20 clear of Shane Thompson.
Key facts from Sutton’s 2018 season
- Tour ranking: 1st with 58 points
- Challenge ranking: 1st with 62 points
- Main Tour wins: Events 3 and 4
- Challenge wins: three events
- Final Challenge result: beat Dom Cooney 6–4
A defining UK Pool Tour season
The campaign also included the National Amateur title and followed Sutton’s World Championship final appearance in 2016. One of the defining weekends was his rare Tour and Challenge double at Event 3.
More major results are preserved in the competition archive.
Historical season archive: originally published in October 2018.