History was created at the Hamilton Cosmopolitan Club when Peter Gilchrist, from Singapore scored a World record break of 1346  in the New Zealand Open Billiards Championships. The previous world record was 1276. Gilchrist also created another world record with only four visits to the table for an average per visit of 426, against the previous best of 243.  In spite of getting out of position a few times Gilchrist showed true world class in regaining his form.  He seemed to have the balls on a string and could place them wherever he wanted.

The very large crowd was spellbound by the mastery shown by Gilchrist, who is the two times world professional champion.