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2004 UK Open Darts
The 2004 Budweiser UK Open was the second time the Professional Darts Corporation held the tournament which had quickly earned the nickname the "FA Cup of Darts". It was held at Bolton Wanderers F.C., Bolton Wanderers' Macron Stadium, Reebok Stadium between 4–6 June 2004. Budweiser (Anheuser-Busch), Budweiser became the tournament's new sponsor. Roland Scholten won the title and the tournament featured Phil Taylor (darts player), Phil Taylor's second televised nine-dart finish during his fourth round win over Matt Chapman (darts player), Matt Chapman. It was also notable for marking the TV debuts of Adrian Lewis and Andy Hamilton (darts player), Andy Hamilton. Prize money Friday 4 June 2004 1st Round, best of 9 legs 128 players started the chase for the title with the lower ranked players. The competition had earned the nickname, "The FA Cup of Darts" by the nature of its random draw for each round - and there was the extraordinary pairing of former world champions John Lowe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macron Stadium
The University of Bolton Stadium is the home ground of Bolton Wanderers F.C. in Horwich, Greater Manchester, England. Opening in 1997, it was named the Reebok Stadium, after club sponsors Reebok. In 2014, Bolton Wanderers signed a naming rights deal with Italian sportswear company Macron. It was renamed the University of Bolton Stadium in 2018. In UEFA matches, it is called Bolton Wanderers Stadium due to UEFA regulations on sponsorship. A hotel forms part of the stadium and some of the rooms offer views of the pitch. History University of Bolton Stadium is an all-seater stadium with a capacity of almost 29,000 and was completed in 1997, replacing the club's old ground, Burnden Park. Burnden Park, which at its peak had held up to 60,000 spectators, was becoming increasingly dilapidated by the 1980s, and a section of terracing was sold off for redevelopment as a supermarket to help pay off the club's rising debts. Bolton Wanderers had dropped into the Third Division ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Deller
Keith Kelvin Deller (born 24 December 1959) is an English former professional darts player best known for winning the 1983 BDO World Darts Championship and Unipart British Professional Championship in 1987. He was the first qualifier ever to win the championship and remains one of the youngest champions in history. For his world championship win, Deller used 18-gram spring-loaded darts, later banned for tournament play but now legal again. Career BDO Deller's victory over Eric Bristow in the 1983 BDO World Darts Championship by 6 sets to 5 was probably the biggest upset in the history of the championship. He had also beaten world number 3 John Lowe in the quarter finals and defending champion and world number 2 Jocky Wilson in the semi-final to become the only player in history to defeat the world's top three ranked players in the World Championship. The tabloid headlines the following day were "Killed Three", an anagram of his name. The champion's prize money in 1983 was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Rose (darts Player)
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Shayne Burgess
Shayne Burgess (born 1 June 1964) is an English former professional darts player who competed in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) tournaments. He is known for his unorthodox throwing action, where he draws the point of the dart up close to his eyeball before releasing. Career Early career Burgess reached the quarter finals of the British Open in 1992 and the quarter-finals of the Winmau World Masters in 1993. Burgess switched to the PDC (then known as the WDC), and reached the semi finals of the 1994 World Matchplay in his first televised event in the WDC. Peak years He reached the semi finals of the 1999 PDC World Championship, when he lost a 4-5 in to Peter Manley, and the quarter finals of the 2000 PDC World Championship. Burgess also finished as runner-up in both the 1999 and 2000 World Grand Prixs, losing to Phil Taylor in both finals. Aside from achieving a 9-dart finish at the Eastbourne Pro event in February 2001, Burgess' form declined for a couple of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reg Harding
Reg Harding (27 September 1945 – 11 August 2014) was an English professional darts player, who played in Professional Darts Corporation events. Career Harding played in five PDC World Darts Championships between 1999 and 2003, although he never got past the Last 32. Harding died in August 2014 after a battle with cancer. World Championship performances PDC * 1999: Last 32: (lost to Phil Taylor 0–3) (sets) * 2000: Last 32: (lost to Alex Roy 0–3) * 2001: Last 32: (lost to Alan Warriner-Little 0–3) * 2002: Last 32: (lost to Alan Warriner-Little 2–4) * 2003: Last 32: (lost to Kevin Painter Kevin Painter (born 12 July 1967) is an English retired darts player, known as "The Artist". He is arguably most famous for finishing as the runner-up to Phil Taylor in the 2004 PDC World Championship final, now widely credited as one of the ... 1–4) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Harding, Reg 1945 births 2014 deaths English darts players Professional Dar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Smith (darts Player)
David Robert Smith (born on 17 June 1971 in Pontefract, Yorkshire) is an English professional darts player from Knottingley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire who currently playing in the British Darts Organisation events. He has nickname The Rhino. Career Dave enjoyed most success in the PDC between 2002–2004, which included a quarter final in the 2003 UK Open, and qualifying for three other tournaments through a one-off qualifier. Smith has earned a full PDC Pro Tour card for the 2011 and 2012 seasons via his world ranking. World Championship Performances PDC * 2003: Last 40: (lost to Mark Holden Mark Ronald Holden (born 27 April 1954) is an Australian singer, actor, TV personality, record producer, songwriter, and barrister. He was a pop star in the 1970s and had four top 20 hit singles, " Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" (May 197 ... 3–4) (sets) References External links * Official website English darts players Living people 1971 births British Darts Organ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Green (darts Player)
Alan Green may refer to: * Alan Green (MP) (1911–1991), British Conservative Party politician * Alan Green (Cleethorpes politician) (1932–2003), Cleethorpes mayor and local politician * Alan Green (broadcaster) (born 1952), British sports commentator on BBC Radio Five Live * Alan Green (admiral) (born 1952), retired South African Navy admiral * Alan Green (footballer, born 1954), former North American Soccer League player * Alan Green (footballer, born 1951), English footballer * Alan Green Jr. (1925–2001), United States ambassador to Romania * (1906–1975), American writer, see 1950 in List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel winners See also * Allan Green (other) * Al Green (other) * Alan Greene Alan Greene (August 29, 1911 – March 12, 2001) was an American diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German language, German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Hunt (darts Player)
Derek is a masculine given name. It is the English language short form of ''Diederik'', the Low Franconian form of the name Theodoric. Theodoric is an old Germanic name with an original meaning of "people-ruler". Common variants of the name are Derrek, Derick, Dereck, Derrick, and Deric. Low German and Dutch short forms of Diederik are Dik, Dirck, and Dirk. History The English form of the name arises in the 15th century, via import from the Low Countries. The native English (Anglo-Saxon) form of the name was ''Deoric'' or ''Deodric'', from Old English ''Þēodrīc'', but this name had fallen out of use in the medieval period. During the Late Middle Ages, there was intense contact between the territories adjacent to the North Sea, in particular due to the activities of the Hanseatic League. As a result, there was a lot of cross-pollination between Low German, Dutch, English, Danish and Norwegian. The given name ''Derk'' is found in records of the Low Countries from the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Harrington
Rodney Harrington (born 30 December 1957) is an English former professional darts player and former commentator. He used the nickname "The Prince of Style" for his matches, often wearing a suit and waistcoat for his games. Harrington enjoyed some major success during his professional career including the prestigious Winmau World Masters in 1991 and two successive World Matchplays in 1998 and 1999. At the PDC Awards Dinner held in January 2019, Harrington was inducted into the PDC Hall of Fame. Darts career BDO career He started his career before the game split into two separate organisations during the early 1990s. He accumulated many Open tournament titles including the Belgian Open (1991, 1992), Denmark Open (1991, 1992), French Open (1991, 1993) and the Swedish Open (1991). Harrington's 1991 Winmau World Masters victory over Phil Taylor remains one of Taylor's rare major final defeats – although Taylor was only a one-time World Champion at the time and had lost his w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eamon Davies (darts Player)
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Richie Burnett
Richard Mark "Richie" Burnett (born 7 February 1967), nicknamed Prince of Wales, is a Welsh professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He is a former World No. 1 who won the 1995 Embassy World Darts Championship. Burnett is known for coming on to " Dakota" and dancing on stage. He is also known for his fiery personality, fighting with Adrian Lewis on stage during the 2012 Players Championship Finals. BDO career Burnett was born in Cwmparc, Rhondda and first came to prominence shortly after the split in the game, after the PDC and the BDO players went their separate ways. Burnett began to win many titles in the BDO in 1994, which included the Dutch Open, Welsh Open, British Matchplay and the Denmark Open. He then added one of the two BDO major titles, the Winmau World Masters beating Steve Beaton in the final. Although the 1995 BDO World Darts Championship was his debut, he had risen in the rankings to become number two seed. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Barton (darts Player)
James or Jim Barton may refer to: * James Barton (actor) James Edward Barton (November 1, 1890 – February 19, 1962) was an American vaudevillian, stage performer, and a character actor in films and on television. Biography He was born into a theatrical family on November 1, 1890 in Gloucester ... (1890–1962), American vaudevillian and character actor * James R. Barton ( 1810–1856), sheriff of Los Angeles County, California * Jim Barton (American football) (1934–2013), former American football player * Jim Barton (sailor) (born 1956), American Olympic sailor * Jim Barton (politician) (born 1968), American politician in the Alabama House of Representatives * James Barton (''Emmerdale''), a fictional character from the British soap opera ''Emmerdale'' * James L Barton (missionary) (1855−1936), a lifelong missionary in Turkey [Baidu] |
