Connor Scutt recently claimed a Tour Card at Q-School and as part of a PDC Introducing feature, he summed up the emotions of joining the darting elite.
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"I started crying I couldn't help it, I started laughing and crying, it was happy tears. It was really good. It's been a long time coming, last year at Q-School it was a month or so after I lost my granddad which was quite hard," said Scutt to the PDC.
"So Q-School last year was very hard for me so I didn't do myself justice at all. This year everything sort of clicked at the right time, it was a lot better."
He discussed his road to a Tour Card and how he went from a 15-year-old taking heavy defeats to joining the PDC.
"I started when I was 15. My brother used to play pub darts with his mates. He had a dart board in his bedroom, little brother wants to copy what big brother does. Then he went to France to work on a fishery out there and whilst he was away, I kept practicing."
"I played IDL and won 8-0 with an 88 average which for someone that age is pretty good and I thought I'm not too bad at this. So I started going to local opens and I used to get absolutely smashed."
"I went to a pub league, I was one of the better players there, went to Super League. I went to the Development Tour and I started getting good there, people started to recognise me. Challenge Tour, Q-School and it was amazing, it was some of the best stuff I played in my career."
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"Winning the Tour Card is the easy bit but the hard work starts now."
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