World Grand Prix (Darts)

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World Grand Prix
sport darts
organizer PDC
Tournament type Ranking tournament
venue Citywest Hotel , DublinIrelandIreland
Competition period October
Record winner EnglandEngland Phil Taylor (11 ×)
reigning winner NetherlandsNetherlands Michael van Gerwen
Last event World Grand Prix 2019
Next event World Grand Prix 2020

The World Grand Prix is one of the major tournaments in darts. It has been organized annually by the Professional Darts Corporation since 1998 . The venue has been the Citywest Hotel in Dublin since 2001 - with an interruption in 2020 .

Previously, the Casino Rooms in Rochester, Kent (in 1998 and 1999) and the Crosbie Cedars Hotel in County Wexford (in 2000) hosted the World Grand Prix.

The current title holder is the Dutchman Michael van Gerwen , who won the final against the Englishman Dave Chisnall with 5: 2 sets in October 2019 .

format

The tournament has been played in the knockout system since 2000 . This was also the case in 1998. In 1999 a group stage was played before the knockout system. In 2000 there was also a preliminary round before the final round. The tournament usually lasts around a calendar week.

Each leg is played in 501 double-in-double-out mode. This means that the respective player can only score points in each leg if he hits a double field and can only win the leg if he brings his 501 points with a double field to exactly 0 points.

In the first edition of the tournament, the tournament was played in the best of legs game mode . Since 1999 it has been consistently held in the best of sets mode.

Prize money

The prize money earned in the tournament is taken into account when calculating the Order of Merit .

It increased continuously over the years and was distributed among the participants from the round of 16 as follows:

Final results

year winner Result opponent
1998 EnglandEngland Phil Taylor 13  : 8
(legs) 		EnglandEngland Rod Harrington
1999 EnglandEngland Phil Taylor 6  : 1 EnglandEngland Shayne Burgess
2000 EnglandEngland Phil Taylor 6  : 1 EnglandEngland Alan Warriner
2001 EnglandEngland Alan Warriner 8  : 2 NetherlandsNetherlands Roland Scholten
2002 EnglandEngland Phil Taylor 7  : 3 CanadaCanada John Part
2003 EnglandEngland Phil Taylor 7  : 2 CanadaCanada John Part
2004 EnglandEngland Colin Lloyd 7  : 3 EnglandEngland Alan Warriner
2005 EnglandEngland Phil Taylor 7  : 1 EnglandEngland Colin Lloyd
2006 EnglandEngland Phil Taylor 7  : 4 EnglandEngland Terry Jenkins
2007 EnglandEngland James Wade 6  : 3 EnglandEngland Terry Jenkins
2008 EnglandEngland Phil Taylor 6  : 2 NetherlandsNetherlands Raymond van Barneveld
2009 EnglandEngland Phil Taylor 6  : 3 NetherlandsNetherlands Raymond van Barneveld
2010 EnglandEngland James Wade 6  : 3 EnglandEngland Adrian Lewis
2011 EnglandEngland Phil Taylor 6  : 3 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Brendan Dolan
2012 NetherlandsNetherlands Michael van Gerwen 6  : 4 EnglandEngland Mervyn King
2013 EnglandEngland Phil Taylor 6  : 0 EnglandEngland Dave Chisnall
2014 NetherlandsNetherlands Michael van Gerwen 5  : 3 EnglandEngland James Wade
2015 ScotlandScotland Robert Thornton 5  : 4 NetherlandsNetherlands Michael van Gerwen
2016 NetherlandsNetherlands Michael van Gerwen 5  : 2 ScotlandScotland Gary Anderson
2017 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Daryl Gurney 5  : 4 AustraliaAustralia Simon Whitlock
2018 NetherlandsNetherlands Michael van Gerwen 5  : 2 ScotlandScotland Peter Wright
2019 NetherlandsNetherlands Michael van Gerwen 5  : 2 EnglandEngland Dave Chisnall
2020

With his eleven titles, Phil Taylor is the current record winner of the World Grand Prix.

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