The top 64 of course has a notable absentee in the form of Phil Taylor who has retired which in effect has moved players up which means they are safe for the time being in terms of rankings in the tour card race for next season.
The likes of John Part, Paul Nicholson, Richie Burnett and Ronnie Baxter will be hoping for some good runs this year to assure them of not having to go back to Q-School next year.
Also the focus will be on the likes of Danny Noppert, Davy van Baelen, Nathan Aspinall and Bradley Brooks as for three out of the four they make their debuts on the tour and for Monk and Tabern they make their long awaited full time returns to the tour.
As well as that we will see the debut of Luke Humphries who won the Development Tour and the 3rd place player who also gained a tour card due to Van den Bergh already having one with Adam Hunt who is a regular fixture on the tour anyway filling out a lot of Players Championship line ups last year joining him.
Mark Dudbridge and Wayne Jones have also got their tour cards back due to the Challenge Tour and will be hoping to roll back the years on their return to the elite of darts.
Top-64 PDC Order of Merit:
Michael van Gerwen
Peter Wright
Rob Cross
Gary Anderson
Daryl Gurney
Mensur Suljovic
Dave Chisnall
Simon Whitlock
James Wade
Raymond van Barneveld
Michael Smith
Gerwyn Price
Benito van de Pas
Ian White
Alan Norris
Kim Huybrechts
Jelle Klaasen
Joe Cullen
Darren Webster
Adrian Lewis
Stephen Bunting
Kyle Anderson
Mervyn King
Steve Beaton
Justin Pipe
Robert Thornton
John Henderson
Cristo Reyes
Jamie Lewis
James Wilson
Jonny Clayton
Steve West
Vincent van der Voort
Mark Webster
Chris Dobey
Brendan Dolan
Christian Kist
Dimitri van den Bergh
Jermaine Wattimena
Terry Jenkins
Robbie Green
Ronny Huybrechts
James Richardson
Jan Dekker
Jamie Caven
Kevin Painter
Keegan Brown
Josh Payne
Max Hopp
Devon Peterseon
Richard North
Ron Meulenkamp
Joe Murnan
Jeffrey de Graaf
Andrew Gilding
William O’Connor
Rowby-John Rodriguez
Ricky Evans
Steve Lennon
Zoran Lerchbacher
Mick McGowan
Peter Jacques
Antonio Alcinas
Martin Schindler
Tour Card-winners Q-School 2017
Ryan Searle
Darren Johnson
Chris Quantock
Jimmy Hendriks
Paul Nicholson
Jamie Bain
Kirk Shepherd
Mickey Mansell
Steve Hine
Richie Edhouse
Aden Kirk
Scott Taylor
Paul Rowley
Ronnie Baxter
Richie Burnett
Madars Razma
Maik Langendorf
Stephen Burton
Ross Twell
Lee Bryant
Sven Groen
John Norman Jr.
John Part
Jim Brown
Scott Darbyshire
Prakash Jiwa
Royden Lam
Top-2 Development Tour Order of Merit:
Luke Humphries
Adam Hunt
Top-2 Challenge Tour Order of Merit:
Wayne Jones
Mark Dudbridge
Europese Q-School 2018:
Jeffrey de Zwaan
Mario Robbe
Tytus Kanik
Gabriel Clemens
Danny Noppert
Robert Marijanovic
Dirk van Duijvenbode
Vincent Kamphuis
Jose Antonio Justicia Perales
Davy van Baelen
UK Q-School 2018:
Eddie Dootson
Corey Cadby
Alan Tabern
Robert Owen
Arron Monk
George Killington
Bradley Brooks
Dawson Murschell
Nathan Aspinall
Ross Smith
Terry Temple
Ryan Harrington
Simon Stevenson
Gary Eastwood
John Goldie
Matthew Edgar
Ryan Meikle
Ryan Joyce
Kevin Burness
Tony Newell
Luke Woodhouse
Peter Hudson
Mark Wilson
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