Shaun Murphy steps down from key role after making admission following £350,000 snooker Masters win

SHAUN MURPHY has stepped down from a large relation pursuing his Masters win.

Murphy, 42, bagged the biggest payday of his vocation successful January erstwhile helium beat Kyren Wilson successful the Alexandra Palace final.

The Englishman banked a whopping £350,000 arsenic the champion - 10 years connected from his maiden Masters crown successful 2015 - positive an other £15,000 for his epic 147 interruption successful the semi-final.

But present Murphy has decided to extremity his clip arsenic World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association Players Chairman.

He joined the committee successful 2023 pursuing a tally of mediocre results which saw him neglect to scope the main gully successful 7 of his adjacent 14 ranking events - and lone going beyond circular 2 twice.

The Magician past took connected the role of president past May.

However, his Masters triumph prompted the satellite No6 to absorption solely connected his snooker again.

And arsenic a result, helium called clip connected his little stint with the WPBSA.

Murphy said connected his OneFourSeven podcast: "There’s nary mode of maine sugarcoating it.

"The triumph astatine the Masters a mates of weeks agone has truly shone a torch for me, into my ain crippled and self-belief, that I tin really inactive bash it astatine the precise cutting edge, apical extremity of the sport.

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“I had started to deliberation that that had gone. So, I started to look astatine different areas successful the crippled wherever I could marque a difference.

"That triumph has fixed maine a pat connected the enarthrosis to say, ‘You cognize what? You tin inactive bash this.’

“In the end, you can’t beryllium each things to each people. You can’t beryllium everyplace each astatine once, and it’s not a occupation I’m consenting to springiness fractional of myself to.

"It’s not a work – looking aft the members, representing them, and warring connected their behalf – that I’m consenting to springiness 75 per cent to it.

“I’m either successful oregon I’m out. At the minute, I’m not capable to correspond them arsenic good arsenic I privation and beryllium arsenic committed arsenic I privation to.

"So I deliberation it’s close that I basal speech and let idiosyncratic other to instrumentality the reins.”

Murphy besides described taking connected the presumption arsenic WPBSA president arsenic a "great honour" successful a connection confirming his resignation with contiguous effect.

He besides leaves his relation of non-executive director, leaving the WPBSA Players Board with Mark Davis, Ken Doherty and Ben Woollaston.