Van Gerwen becomes second player ever to reach milestone of 50 major titles in the PDC
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Michael van Gerwen's final victory at the World Series of Darts Finals in Amsterdam was the 50th major title in 'Mighty Mike's' career. The 34-year-old Dutchman is just the second darter ever to achieve this milestone.
The absolute leader in terms of major titles is, of course, darts legend Phil Taylor. With 84 major titles at the PDC, the 16-time world champion still has a street-length lead over Van Gerwen. Van Gerwen took almost 11 years to capture his 50 major titles. His first was the World Grand Prix in 2012. It proved to be the starting point of a very successful career.
Van Gerwen's palmares now include three world titles, three World Matchplay titles, seven Premier League titles, four European Championship titles, three Grand Slam titles, seven Players Championship Finals titles, five Masters titles, three UK Open titles, six World Grand Prix titles, one Champions League of Darts title, three World Cup of Darts titles and, finally, five World Series Finals titles.
Joint third on the perennial list of PDC major titles are James Wade and Raymond van Barneveld with both having 11 major titles. Gary Anderson, Peter Wright and Gerwyn Price all stand at nine major titles at the PDC, while Adrian Lewis has eight. Jonny Clayton stands at six, while Rob Cross rounds out the top-10 with four major titles.
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Champions League, Masters, World Series, World Cup are not majors. Only non ranking event that can be argued as a major is the Premier League because of the huge prize pot and you have to be good throughout 17 weeks to win it
Phil Taylor is the greatest player ever and if he played for the amount of titles as they do nowadays he would have won so much more than the 84. Phil was never bothered being number one seed and chasing worthless points,just winning the majors. If Phil was playing today as he did in his prime he would still win everything and if committed probably win 50 titles within 2 or 3 years. The bottom line who cares about the Masters or World Series anyway, just playing for pocket money.
Great comment, Richieburnettrocks. Mr Burnett can still produce the goods too... I watched him and others many moons ago - Lakeside... I would love those days back for sure. There is something dodgy about Mr Lego Head, and I'm not just talking about his hurricane-proof mop, lol.
With more major titles now available compared to the first 10 years of the PDC its possible to rack up a fair amount of titles. Going against is that the strength in depth is a lot deeper than those first 10 years. Invitationals like the Masters, Premier League and to an extent the World Series are not Majors in the same sense as the Matchplay, Grand Prix, UK Open, etc. If a competition is not open to all tour card holders then its not a Major.
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