The PDC UK Challenge Tour came to an end last weekend. After twelve tournaments Jim Williams has won the ranking with £3950 in prize money.
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Williams laid the foundation for his ranking win during the first weekend of the Challenge Tour, when he reached two finals. One of those finals he also won. With his achievement Williams receives a Tour Card for 2022 and 2023 and has qualified for the Grand Slam of Darts and the PDC World Darts Championship.
The numbers two to five also won a prize. Shaun McDonald, Martin Thomas, Darren Beveridge and Adam Smith-Neale get an invitation for the UK Open in 2022.
Remarkably the UK Challenge Tour has produced twelve different winners in the twelve tournaments, keeping the battle for the top spots on the ranking exciting until the end. The likes of Nathan Rafferty, Cameron Menzies and James Richardson also won one of the tournaments, but did not perform well enough in the other tournaments.
Final standings PDC UK Challenge Tour
Position - Name - Total Prize Money
1 Jim Williams £3,950
2 Shaun McDonald £3,850
3 Martin Thomas £3,800
4 Darren Beveridge £3,400
5 Adam Smith-Neale £3,350
6 Nathan Rafferty £3,200
7 Cameron Menzies £3,150
8 Reece Robinson £3,100
9 Jamie Clark £3,000
10 Jim McEwan £2,700
11 Matthew Dennant £2,550
12 James Richardson £2,450
13 Gavin Carlin £2,350
14 Connor Scutt £1,950
15 Keelan Kay £1,750
16 Richie Burnett £1,650
17 Carl Wilkinson £1,550
18 Jason Hogg £1,500
19 Robert Rickwood £1,400
20 Justin Smith £1,400
21 Nathan Girvan £1,400
22 Carl Beattie £1,400
23 Daniel Lauby £1,350
24 Adam Mould £1,300
25 Chas Barstow £1,300
26 Derek Coulson £1,200
27 Colin Osborne £1,200
28 Kevin Burness £1,200
29 Nick Fullwell £1,150
30 Ryan Furness £1,150
31 Robert Thornton £1,150
32 Robert Owen £1,150
33 Scott Taylor £1,100
34 Kevin Garcia £1,100
35 Graham Usher £1,100
36 Steve Hine £1,100
37 Ryan Palmer £1,100
38 Kyle Richardson £1,050
39 Dan Read £1,000
40 Robert Collins £950
41 Stu Wilson £950
42 Niall Culleton £900
43 John O'Shea £900
44 Conan Whitehead £900
45 Tony Newell £900
46 Prakash Jiwa £850
47 John Imrie £800
48 Mike Warburton £800
49 Lewis Pride £800
50 David Pallett £750
51 Reece Colley £700
52 Ryan Harrington £700
53 Neil MacDougall £650
54 Scott Marsh £650
55 Adam Huckvale £650
56 Nicholas Bell £650
57 Dom Taylor £650
58 Lee Cocks £650
59 Rhys Hayden £650
60 Martyn Turner £600
61 Adrian Devine £600
62 Arron Monk £550
63 Jarred Cole £550
64 Andy Jenkins £550
65 Wes Newton £550
66 Joe Davis £550
67 Dave Prins £550
68 Stephen Burton £550
69 Richard North £550
70 Sam Cankett £500
71 Darren Johnson £500
72 Jamie Robinson £500
73 Lloyd Pennell £500
74 Chris Quantock £500
75 Ian Mackenzie £450
76 Aden Kirk £450
77 Shane McGuirk £450
78 Barrie Bates £450
79 Alan Norris £450
80 Owen Maiden £450
81 Robbie Ellis £450
82 Stuart White £400
83 Scott Williams £400
84 Matt Clark £400
85 Rhys Griffin £400
86 David Wawrzewski £400
87 Liam Meek £400
88 Lee Davies £400
89 Thomas Lovely £400
90 Fallon Sherrock £350
91 Ryan Hogarth £350
92 John Bowles £350
93 Wayne Morgan £350
94 Matt Padgett £300
95 Darren Armstrong £300
96 Jordan Brooks £300
97 Alex Long £300
98 Rhys Davies £300
99 Charlie Symons £300
100 Killian Heffernan £300
101 Daniel Day £300
102 Ross MacDougall £300
103 Dean Jones (Wales) £300
104 Matt Jackson £300
105 Shane Price £250
106 Paul Holloway £250
107 Jamie Durrant £250
108 David Neads £250
109 A.J. Urmston-Toft £250
110 Ben Quenby £250
111 Lee Evans £250
112 David Ladley £250
113 Sam Booth £250
114 Luke Smith £250
115 Kevin McDine £250
116 Scott Baker £200
117 Sean Fisher £200
118 Josh McCarthy £200
119 Kelvin Hart £200
120 Adrian Gray £200
121 Stephen Gallimore £200
122 Graham Vernon £200
123 Diogo Portela £200
124 Jaikob Selby-Rivas £200
125 Coby Jones-Swanson £200
126 Nathan Derry £200
127 Sam Ward £200
128 Mike Norton £200
129 Brian Woods £150
130 Stephen McNally £150
131 Kenneth Matthews £150
132 Philip Borthwick £150
133 Neilie Brouder £150
134 Jamie Lewis £150
135 Anastasia Dobromyslova £150
136 Ben Hazel £150
137 Gary Stafford £150
138 Greg Ritchie £150
139 Scott Hope £150
140 Paul Mitchell £150
141 Antony Allen £150
142 Tony Procter £150
143 Mark Lawrence £150
144 Shaun Matthews £100
145 Deta Hedman £100
146 Jose Marques £100
147 Michael Baker £100
148 Jack Vincent £100
149 Wayne Thomas £100
150 Steve Earley £100
151 Brian Hallas £100
152 Luke Hardy £100
153 Stuart Reeve £100
154 Martin Grearson £100
155 Kieran Evans £100
156 Michael Barnard £100
157 Chris Craven £100
158 Jack Neary £100
159 Lorraine Winstanley £100
160 Jason Gallagher £100
161 Scottie Walters £100
162 Jason Askew £100
163 Ian Jopling £100
164 Corrine Hammond £50
165 Karl Webster £50
166 Shaun Moughtin £50
167 Adam Jenkinson £50
168 Billy Gallie £50
169 Dean Winstanley £50
170 Derek Lumley £50
171 Joey Palfreyman £50
172 Russell Murphy £50
173 Steven Kirkham £50
174 Anthony Brown £50
175 Craig Searle £50
176 Justin Hood £50
177 Bradley Holme £50
178 Glenn Gibson £50
179 Jake Carter £50
180 James Bishop (Reading) £50
181 Coni Singh Nagi £50
182 Curtis Turner £50
183 Frankie Ansell £50
184 Luke Ely £50
185 Steven Bradley £50
186 Simon McCall £50
187 Martin Green £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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