As the song goes Goldfinger, he's the man, the man with the Midas touch and he certainly had that at the UK Open as Andrew Gilding scooped the £110,000 top prize and a maiden major title.
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Gilding's Goldfinger moniker is of course related to James Bond but wasn't the first immediate thought of the 52-year-old when he started playing.
"Nearly 20 years ago now, I bought a set of Phil Taylor Phase Five darts and they were gold so I thought my name should be Goldfinger. My last name is Gilding as well which has got gold connotations, that seemed to fit perfectly," he said at the World Darts Championship.
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