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After each of the first three rounds, the professionals face each other in a standard game of darts; the first to count down from 501 to zero wins, scoring 10 points for their team, and a double is required to close out. A team earns a bonus of £500 or £1,000 for a score of 180 or a nine-dart finish by their professional, respectively. The ...
Premier League Darts, known for sponsorship purposes in 2024 as BetMGM Premier League Darts, is a darts tournament which launched on 20 January 2005 on Sky Sports. Now played weekly from February to May, the event originally started as a fortnightly fixture in small venues around the United Kingdom .
Michael van Gerwen is the current world record holder for a televised match with a three-dart average of 123.40 thrown in the 2016 Premier League against Michael Smith. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Peter Wright holds the record for highest Professional Darts Corporation live streamed match average (123.53), at Players Championship 29 in 2019.
He began playing darts when he was 18 months old, after his father bought him a magnetic dart board from a pound shop. He scored his first 180 at the age of six and a nine-dart finish at the age of 13. [7] When he was 10, he joined the St Helens Darts Academy and began playing in under-21 leagues. [8] He was educated at Padgate Academy in ...
But while an estimated 17 million Americans currently play the sport, darts has yet to break through the already crowded US sports market, with many people still seeing it as a simple bar game.
Standard dartboard. A nine-dart finish, also known as a nine-darter, is a perfect leg or single game in the sport of darts.The object of the game is to score a set number of points, most commonly 501; in order to win, a player must reach the target total exactly and hit a double scoring area with their last dart.
This is the first time in many years that the BBC has broadcast a darts event other than the BDO World Darts Championship. The BBC shows the event until 2010. 2002. 4–7 July – Sky Sports shows the first edition of a new overseas tournament, the Las Vegas Desert Classic. Sky continues to show the event until it ends in 2009. 2003
In 1994, he began working as an MC and commentator. McDonald has commentated on multiple Darts World Championship Games. [3] Throughout his career, McDonald has commentated on Boxing, Snooker, Fishing, Poker, Tennis, Table-Tennis and Darts for Sky Sports and ITV both in the United Kingdom and abroad. [4]