Price increases lead on Wright and Van Gerwen on PDC Order of Merit after new European Tour title
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The PDC Order of Merit has been updated after the opening European Tour tournament of the season which took place this past weekend in Budapest.
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Gerwyn Price was the victor and has taken another important step heading towards the World Championship. 'The Iceman' has increased his lead over Peter Wright and Michael van Gerwen at the top of the Order of Merit.
This after the possibility of Peter Wright taking over going into the World Championship was highly likely. Just under £200,000 is the lead now held by the World Champion while Van Gerwen has increased his slide under £1m.
Further down, Jonny Clayton has continued his rise going into 13th with Rob Cross who is losing money off his ranking all of the time due to tournaments coming off the next player up.
While Glen Durrant is about to slide out of the top 16 with Daryl Gurney taking 15th spot. Further down, Luke Humphires, Brendan Dolan, Jermaine Wattimena and Jamie Hughes are all up one spot.
PDC Order of Merit as of 06/09/2021
1 Gerwyn Price £1,325,500
2 Peter Wright £1,127,250
3 Michael van Gerwen £966,750
4 James Wade £465,750
5 Dimitri Van den Bergh £451,250
6 Gary Anderson £429,750
7 Dave Chisnall £377,250
8 Jose de Sousa £375,000
9 Michael Smith £365,500
10 Nathan Aspinall £345,000
11 Krzysztof Ratajski £322,500
12 Rob Cross £321,750
13 Jonny Clayton £274,250
14 Joe Cullen £273,500
15 Daryl Gurney £264,250
16 Glen Durrant £261,750
17 Ian White £251,250
18 Stephen Bunting £245,250
19 Simon Whitlock £228,250
20 Mervyn King £226,500
21 Dirk van Duijvenbode £217,000
22 Danny Noppert £206,000
23 Chris Dobey £196,000
24 Gabriel Clemens £192,000
25 Devon Petersen £191,500
26 Luke Humphries £191,000
27 Mensur Suljovic £182,250
28 Brendan Dolan £177,250
29 Vincent van der Voort £173,250
30 Adrian Lewis £161,250
31 Jermaine Wattimena £160,250
32 Jeffrey De Zwaan £159,750
33 Ryan Searle £158,750
34 Jamie Hughes £140,750
35 Ricky Evans £140,000
36 Kim Huybrechts £123,750
37 Ross Smith £122,000
38 William O'Connor £119,250
39 Darius Labanauskas £116,500
40 Damon Heta £116,000
41 Steve Beaton £108,500
42 Ryan Joyce £105,000
43 Keegan Brown £91,500
44 Callan Rydz £89,750
45 John Henderson £89,500
46 Max Hopp £88,750
47 Luke Woodhouse £84,500
47 Steve West £84,500
49 Steve Lennon £78,000
50 Ron Meulenkamp £70,500
51 Andy Boulton £66,750
52 Darren Webster £66,000
53 Madars Razma £65,750
54 Adam Hunt £62,000
55 Jason Lowe £61,000
56 Martijn Kleermaker £59,500
57 Justin Pipe £57,000
58 Mickey Mansell £53,750
59 Jelle Klaasen £52,750
60 Maik Kuivenhoven £52,000
61 Matthew Edgar £47,000
62 Jeff Smith £45,000
63 Scott Waites £44,000
64 Josh Payne £41,000
65 Ryan Murray £36,750
66 Karel Sedlacek £36,500
67 Ted Evetts £35,250
68 James Wilson £33,750
69 Wayne Jones £32,500
70 Andy Hamilton £32,000
71 Boris Krcmar £29,500
71 Mike De Decker £29,500
73 Ryan Meikle £29,000
73 Derk Telnekes £29,000
75 Nick Kenny £28,500
75 Mark McGeeney £28,500
77 William Borland £28,000
78 Cristo Reyes £27,000
79 Alan Soutar £25,250
80 Bradley Brooks £23,500
81 Raymond van Barneveld £22,500
82 Scott Mitchell £22,000
82 Lisa Ashton £22,000
84 Martin Schindler £20,000
84 Ciaran Teehan £20,000
86 Alan Tabern £19,250
87 Kai Fan Leung £19,000
88 Peter Jacques £18,500
89 Krzysztof Kciuk £18,250
90 Rowby-John Rodriguez £16,500
91 Jesus Noguera £15,750
92 Ritchie Edhouse £13,750
93 Martin Atkins £13,500
93 Chas Barstow £13,500
93 Steve Brown £13,500
96 Lewis Williams £13,250
97 Keane Barry £12,750
98 Rusty-Jake Rodriguez £12,500
98 Daniel Larsson £12,500
100 Joe Murnan £10,500
101 Gordon Mathers £10,000
101 Eddie Lovely £10,000
101 Jason Heaver £10,000
101 Aaron Beeney £10,000
105 Niels Zonneveld £9,250
106 Kevin Doets £9,000
107 Geert De Vos £8,500
107 Gary Blades £8,500
109 Martin Lukeman £8,000
109 Robert Thornton £8,000
109 John Brown £8,000
112 Luc Peters £7,500
113 Adam Gawlas £7,000
114 John Michael £6,750
115 Florian Hempel £6,500
116 Geert Nentjes £6,000
116 Andrew Gilding £6,000
116 Boris Koltsov £6,000
116 Zoran Lerchbacher £6,000
120 Jon Worsley £5,500
120 Jack Main £5,500
120 Steffen Siepmann £5,500
123 Harald Leitinger £5,000
123 David Evans £5,000
123 Berry van Peer £5,000
126 Martin Thomas £4,500
126 Peter Hudson £4,500
126 Kirk Shepherd £4,500
129 Danny Baggish £4,000
129 Michael Rasztovits £4,000
129 Gino Vos £4,000
129 Darren Penhall £4,000
129 Wesley Harms £4,000
134 Jake Jones £3,500
134 Jose Justicia £3,500
136 Jim McEwan £3,000
136 Christian Kist £3,000
138 Sean Fisher £2,500
138 Lukas Wenig £2,500
138 Kevin McDine £2,500
138 Sebastian Bialecki £2,500
142 Richard Veenstra £2,000
142 Ryan De Vreede £2,000
142 Benito van de Pas £2,000
142 Vincent Van der Meer £2,000
146 Jozsef Rucska £1,000
146 Thomas Lovely £1,000
146 Janos Vegso £1,000
146 Gabor Jagicza £1,000
146 Johan Engstrom £1,000
146 Peter Strbik £1,000
146 Shane McGuirk £1,000
146 Lorenzo Pronk £1,000
146 Robert Marijanovic £1,000
146 Pero Ljubic £1,000
146 Mike Warburton £1,000
146 Gavin Carlin £1,000
146 Brett Claydon £1,000
146 Scott Taylor £1,000
146 Jim Williams £1,000
146 Rhys Griffin £1,000
146 Michael Unterbuchner £1,000
163 Davy Proosten £500
163 Patrick van den Boogaard £500
163 Scott Williams £500
163 Michal Smejda £500
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