The last two events of the PDC Development Tour season will be played on Sunday. There is some nice rewards for the best players on the ranking.
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Following Sunday's Event Ten, the top two players from the final Development Tour Order of Merit will win a two-year PDC Tour Card and a place in the 2020/21 PDC World Darts Championship. The top two spots are currently occupied by Ryan Meikle and Keane Barry.
However Meikle already has a Tour Card, which would mean that one will move to the third spot. Berry van Peer is currently the nummer three on the PDC Development Tour Order of Merit, but the likes of Ted Evetts, Damian Mol and Kevin Doets are close behind him.
The top eight of the ranking will receive an invite for the 2021 UK Open, while the top 96 are allowed to participate in the PDC World Youth Championship on Monday September 28.
The Development Tour is the PDC's youth circuit. This tour is open to players between the ages of 16 and 23, when they are not in the top 32 of the PDC Order of Merit on January 2, 2020.
The likes of Berry van Peer, Martin Schindler, Niels Zonneveld, Keane Barry, Rusty-Jake Rodriguez, Ted Evetts and Geert Nentjes are allowed to play in these events. This does not apply to reigning world youth champion Luke Humphries, since the Englishman is now 25 years old.
PDC Development Tour Order of Merit after 8/10 events (source: Dartsrankings.com)
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Rank - Name - Prize money
1 Ryan Meikle 5900
2 Keane Barry 3700
3 Berry van Peer 3250
4 Ted Evetts 3050
5 Damian Mol 3050
6 Kevin Doets 2900
7 Wessel Nijman 2250
8 Martin Schindler 2200
9 Niels Zonneveld 2100
10 Dom Taylor 1950
11 Keelan Kay 1750
12 Joe Davis 1500
13 Nico Kurz 1500
14 Brian Raman 1350
15 Sebastian Bialecki 1350
16 Rhys Griffin 1300
17 Lewis Williams 1150
18 Rusty-Jake Rodriguez 1000
19 Adam Gawlas 950
20 Geert Nentjes 900
21 Owen Roelofs 850
22 Jaikob Selby-Rivas 850
23 Lewis Pride 750
24 Gian van Veen 750
25 Liam Meek 700
26 Daan Bastiaansen 700
27 Jack Main 700
28 Joshua Richardson 700
29 Jamai van den Herik 700
30 Kevin Troppmann 700
31 Bradley Brooks 700
32 Jarred Cole 650
33 Marcus Tommaso Brambati 650
34 Henk Snijder 600
35 Reece Colley 600
36 Kalem Marsh 600
37 Thomas Lovely 600
38 Maikel Verberk 600
39 Nathan Rafferty 500
40 Jitse Van der Wal 500
41 Henry Cutting 500
42 Lewis Gurney 500
43 Sven Hesse 450
44 Bertus Herks 400
45 Nathan Girvan 400
46 Luke Colwill 400
47 Mike van Duivenbode 400
48 Justin Smith 350
49 Lee Lok Yin 350
50 Callan Rydz 350
51 John Brown 350
52 Levy Frauenfelder 350
53 Josh McCarthy 350
54 Robin Beger 350
55 James Beeton 350
56 Brad Phillips 350
57 Ciaran Teehan 350
58 Ole Holtkamp 300
59 William Blackwell 300
60 Jack Kirtland 300
61 Ben McCaffery 300
62 Ben Cheeseman 300
63 Cameron Doyle 300
64 Sam Coenders 300
65 Moreno Blom 300
66 Aaron Ayres 300
67 Justin van Tergouw 300
68 Mikey Rees 250
69 George Killington 250
70 Timo Van den Elshout 250
71 Fred Box 250
72 Keith O'Neill 250
73 Brent Plaisier 250
74 Adam Paxton 250
75 Jurjen van der Velde 250
76 Philipp Hagemann 250
77 Alec Small 250
78 Scott Hope 200
79 Daniel Perry 200
80 Connor Pickett 200
81 Owen Maiden 200
82 Henry Reddin 200
83 William Borland 200
84 Michael Poole 200
85 Aiden Cope 200
86 Maartendirk Woord 200
87 Llew Bevan 200
88 Charlie Symons 200
89 Vilem Sedivy 200
90 Jack Male 200
91 Raphael Leufgen 200
92 Callum Wildridge 150
93 Jacob Gwynne 150
94 Sam Cromwell 150
95 Corey Burton 150
96 Coby Jones-Swanson 150
97 Tomas Houdek 150
98 Roman Benecky 150
99 Justin Hewitt 150
100 Charlie Green 150
101 Danny van Trijp 150
102 Ben West 150
103 Marcus Kirchmann 150
104 Egor Tvorogov 150
105 Cameron Anderson 100
106 Daniel Castle 100
107 Sean Negrette 100
108 Jack Vincent 100
109 Lewis Bennett 100
110 Jakob Kelly 100
111 Jamie Peetoom 100
112 Reece Pauling 100
113 Alex Jacques 100
114 Daniel Thomas 100
115 Sam Aitkens 100
116 Kai Haddock 100
117 Joshua Lloyd 100
118 Matt Smith 100
119 Thomas Cromwell 100
120 Matthew Holbrook 100
121 Tom Dawson 100
122 John Wightman 100
123 Bradley Halls 100
124 Nathan Care 100
125 Danny Jansen 100
126 Lennon Cradock 100
127 Niklas Thunemann 100
128 Tom Heldt 100
129 Keanu van Velzen 100
130 Marc Legant 100
131 Nico Blum 100
132 Jordan Ward 100
133 David Schlichting 100
134 Rene Molendijk 100
135 Alessio Marconi 100
136 Callum Wilson 100
137 Leon Rudolf 100
138 Sebastian Oschitzki 100
139 Daniel Jones 50
140 Frederick Still 50
141 George Cressey 50
142 Kieron Robinson 50
143 Lloyd Walker 50
144 Peter Fisher 50
145 Tony Procter 50
146 Callum Matthews 50
147 Craig Galliano 50
148 Jim Moston 50
149 Benjamin Smith 50
150 Kieran Harris 50
151 Kyran Jones 50
152 Leighton Calder 50
153 Luke Rutter 50
154 Ryan Payne 50
155 Joe Russell 50
156 Liam Gordon 50
157 Rory Hunt 50
158 Brandon Western 50
159 Connor Scutt 50
160 Jack Dickinson 50
161 James Green 50
162 Liam Willis 50
163 Danny Key 50
164 Man Lok Leung 50
165 Rory Jolly 50
166 Christian Helmecke 50
167 Dylan Powell 50
168 Lewis Plank 50
169 Lukas Fabian Schwarzbach 50
170 Mattia Pinelli 50
171 Maximilian Johansen 50
172 Thomas King 50
173 Viani Van den bergh 50
174 Winston van de Graaf 50
175 Ben Quenby 50
176 Dylan Dowling 50
177 Joost Geurts 50
178 Leon Remde 50
179 Manuel Strobel 50
180 Robbie Chalmers 50
181 Ryan Ward 50
182 Kevin Knopf 50
183 Lewis McGuigan 50
184 Amos Menghini 50
185 Jack Sargeant 50
186 Jonas Aplowski 50
187 Joshua Hermann 50
188 Lerena Rietbergen 50
189 Owen Emmett-Bowden 50
190 Joe Higgins 50
191 Nathan Boon 50
192 Alexander Rolf 50
193 Alfie Jacques 50
194 Andy Kent 50
195 Colin Philippi 50
196 Jack Neary 50
197 Josh Brake 50
198 Justin Paul 50
199 Kevin Schiller 50
200 Kieran Hoare 50
201 Marvin van Velzen 50
202 Mike Tiedemann 50
203 Spyridon Ballas 50
204 Youri Brouwer 50
I stumbled into the world of darts quite by accident back in 2013. For a Journalism School assignment, I had to produce a live sports report and as it happened, the European Tour event in Veldhoven was the only available option. That weekend, I caught the darts bug. The post-match interviews especially appealed to me, as darts players tend to be much more open and approachable than what you usually see with footballers on television.
After a few detours, I joined Dartsnieuws.com in 2017 as editor-in-chief. I don’t have much competitive experience myself, although I once entered a PDC Development Tour weekend just to experience what it’s like from a player’s perspective. I even managed to win a leg against a Tour Card holder and, quite by accident, earned £50 in prize money.
In 2022, I was also involved in the founding of the TOTO Dart Kings, a commercial darts team, where I worked as media manager for three years. Unfortunately, due to new legislation in the Netherlands, that project came to an end in 2025.
Through my work in darts, I’ve been fortunate to travel to some incredible events, from Premier League nights at Ahoy Rotterdam, to several World Championships, and even the US Darts Masters at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Beyond darts, I’m a passionate sports fan in general. You can always wake me up for a game of tennis or padel, and I love following football, tennis, padel, cycling, Formula 1, and ice skating.
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