The 2019
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Players Championship Finals
The Players Championship Finals is a darts tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The tournament originally featured the top 32 players from the Players Championship Order of Merit, a separate ranking system that only takes int ...
was the twelfth edition of the
PDC darts tournament, which sees the top 64 players from the
30 Players Championship events of 2019 taking part. The tournament took place from 22–24 November 2019 at
Butlin's Resort in
Minehead.
Daryl Gurney
Daryl Gurney (born 22 March 1986) is a Northern Irish professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Gurney is a winner of two majors, having won the World Grand Prix in 2017 in his native Ireland, and the P ...
was the defending champion after defeating
Michael van Gerwen
Michael van Gerwen (; born 25 April 1989) is a Dutch professional darts player. He is currently ranked number 3 in the world, having been number 1 from 2014 to 2021. He is also a three-time PDC World Champion, having won the title in 2014, 2 ...
11–9 in
the 2018 competition, but he lost 6–5 in the first round to
Luke Woodhouse
Luke Woodhouse (born 13 October 1988) is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
Known as "Woody", he won a PDC Challenge Tour event in 2013.
World Championship results PDC
* 2020: Third ro ...
.
Van Gerwen hit the first televised
nine-dart finish in over a year in his second round victory over
Adrian Lewis
Adrian Lewis (born 21 January 1985) is an English professional darts player currently playing in the PDC. He is a two-time PDC World Darts Champion, winning in 2011 and 2012. He is nicknamed Jackpot, as he won a jackpot gambling in Las Vegas ...
.
Van Gerwen went on to become Players Champion for the fifth time, beating
Gerwyn Price
Gerwyn Stephen Price (born 7 March 1985) is a Welsh professional darts player and former professional rugby union and rugby league player. Nicknamed "The Iceman", he competes in events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC), where he is cu ...
11–9 in the final.
Prize money
The 2019 Players Championship Finals will have a total prize fund of £500,000, an increase from the £460,000 available in 2018.
The following is the breakdown of the fund:
Qualification
The top 64 players from the Players Championships Order of Merit qualify, which is solely based on prize money won in the thirty Players Championships events during the season:
Top 64 in the Players Championship Order of Merit
Draw
There was no draw held, all players were put in a fixed bracket by their seeding positions.
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
References
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