 Complete the following phrase:  The first world ranking event of the season was the inaugural Australian Goldfields Open where Ford reached the final stages by beating Gerard Greene. He then beat world number 15 Jamie Cope 53 before being whitewashed 05 by eventual winner Stuart Bingham in the last 16. He made it through to his third successive UK Championship main draw where he played former world champion Neil Robertson, but was comfortably beaten 16. Ford won his second PTC title at Event 11 in December by defeating Martin Gould 43. He finished twelfth in the Order of Merit to qualify for the 2012 Finals, where he lost to Mark Davis 14 in the last 24.ref name201112ref He then qualified for the wildcard round of the German Masters with a 50 whitewash of Anthony Hamilton and beat Irishman Philip Arnold 51 to reach the last 32, where he met Mark Allen. Ford held a 30 lead, but went on to lose the match 45. He qualified for the Welsh Open and beat Graeme Dott 42 in the opening round, before losing to Stephen Lee 14. Ford also reached the second round of the 