Following his defeat of Luke Humphries in the final of the Belgian Darts Open, Michael van Gerwen has returned to number two in the PDC Order of Merit.
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Rising above Peter Wright, who has found wins hard to come by in 2023, van Gerwen will now be hunting down the current world number one, Michael Smith.
Elsewhere, beaten semi-finalist Josh Rock continues his relentless rise up the rankings and is now up to a career high of 29. Keane Barry closes in on a a first appearance in the world's top 32 as another solid European Tour performance sees the Irishman move up to number 40 in the Order of Merit.
PDC Order of Merit after European Tour 7
Position Name Total Prize Money
1 Michael Smith £1,273,250
2 Michael van Gerwen £1,156,000
3 Peter Wright £1,153,250
4 Gerwyn Price £773,250
5 Rob Cross £543,000
6 Luke Humphries £539,500
7 Jonny Clayton £519,250
8 Danny Noppert £490,750
9 Nathan Aspinall £481,000
10 Dimitri Van den Bergh £453,250
11 Dirk van Duijvenbode £420,000
12 Joe Cullen £377,250
13 Dave Chisnall £370,250
14 Ryan Searle £365,000
15 James Wade £347,000
16 Damon Heta £346,000
17 Jose de Sousa £342,000
18 Ross Smith £332,000
19 Krzysztof Ratajski £300,500
20 Gabriel Clemens £294,000
21 Chris Dobey £285,500
22 Gary Anderson £272,250
23 Stephen Bunting £254,500
24 Andrew Gilding £246,500
25 Callan Rydz £237,000
26 Martin Schindler £231,500
27 Brendan Dolan £223,000
28 Daryl Gurney £213,500
29 Josh Rock £188,500
30 Kim Huybrechts £182,250
31 Raymond van Barneveld £178,250
32 Mervyn King £173,500
33 Vincent van der Voort £162,500
34 Alan Soutar £154,250
35 Mensur Suljovic £153,750
36 Madars Razma £142,750
37 Adrian Lewis £142,750
38 William O’Connor £136,750
39 Martin Lukeman £130,000
40 Keane Barry £128,750
41 Simon Whitlock £127,000
42 Ian White £121,500
43 Martijn Kleermaker £115,250
44 Ryan Joyce £105,000
45 Ryan Meikle £104,500
46 Luke Woodhouse £101,500
47 Jermaine Wattimena £101,000
48 Adam Gawlas £97,750
49 Ritchie Edhouse £97,500
50 Mike De Decker £95,750
51 Florian Hempel £94,250
52 Ricky Evans £93,750
53 Rowby-John Rodriguez £91,000
54 Steve Beaton £90,750
55 Jim Williams £89,250
56 Boris Krcmar £88,000
57 Scott Williams £80,250
58 Jamie Hughes £78,000
59 Darius Labanauskas £74,000
60 Matt Campbell £68,750
61 Lewy Williams £68,250
62 Steve Lennon £65,000
63 Cameron Menzies £58,000
64 Joe Murnan £56,500
65 Mickey Mansell £55,750
66 Nathan Rafferty £54,250
67 Danny Jansen £53,000
68 Jeff Smith £52,250
69 Devon Petersen £51,500
70 Ricardo Pietreczko £43,750
71 John O’Shea £43,500
72 Richie Burnett £40,250
73 Ted Evetts £38,250
74 Mario Vandenbogaerde £37,250
75 Kevin Doets £34,250
76 Scott Waites £31,750
77 Jose Justicia £31,750
78 Bradley Brooks £29,750
79 Krzysztof Kciuk £28,000
80 Jimmy Hendriks £27,750
81 Connor Scutt £27,500
82 Brian Raman £26,000
83 Radek Szaganski £22,250
84 Rusty-Jake Rodriguez £20,750
85 George Killington £20,250
86 James Wilson £20,000
87 Jeffrey de Zwaan £19,250
88 Damian Mol £19,000
89 Shaun Wilkinson £19,000
90 Richard Veenstra £18,000
91 Ross Montgomery £17,500
92 Dylan Slevin £16,750
93 Tony Martinez £16,500
94 Luc Peters £16,250
95 Keegan Brown £16,250
96 Gian van Veen £13,750
97 Chris Landman £13,750
98 Jules van Dongen £13,250
99 Jamie Clark £12,750
100 Andy Boulton £12,250
101 Kevin Burness £11,250
102 Berry van Peer £10,750
103 Lee Evans £10,750
104 Darren Webster £10,250
105 Jurjen van der Velde £10,000
106 Jeffrey Sparidaans £9,250
107 Niels Zonneveld £9,250
108 Graham Hall £9,000
109 Maik Kuivenhoven £9,000
110 Graham Usher £8,750
111 Pascal Rupprecht £8,250
112 Karel Sedlacek £8,250
113 Adam Warner £7,750
114 Arron Monk £7,500
115 Robert Owen £7,250
116 Geert Nentjes £7,250
117 Nick Fullwell £7,250
118 Niko Springer £6,500
119 Owen Roelofs £6,250
120 Jelle Klaasen £5,750
121 Stephen Burton £5,750
122 Nick Kenny £5,500
123 Daniel Klose £5,500
124 Martijn Dragt £5,250
125 Josh Payne £5,250
126 Cam Crabtree £5,250
127 Adam Smith-Neale £5,000
128 Liam Maendl-Lawrance £5,000
129 Robbie Knops £4,250
130 Andy Baetens £4,000
131 Thibault Tricole £4,000
132 Lukas Wenig £4,000
133 Vladimir Andersen £4,000
134 Stefan Bellmont £3,750
135 John Henderson £3,750
136 Christian Kist £3,500
137 Ronny Huybrechts £3,250
138 Danny van Trijp £2,750
139 Roman Benecky £2,500
140 Hannes Schnier £2,500
141 Dennis Nilsson £2,500
142 Marko Kantele £2,500
143 Dragutin Horvat £2,500
144 Jeroen Mioch £2,500
145 Rene Eidams £2,500
146 Filip Sebesta £2,500
147 Luke Littler £2,500
148 Thomas Banks £2,500
149 James Hurrell £2,250
150 Darryl Pilgrim £2,000
151 Jacques Labre £2,000
152 James Richardson £1,750
153 Conor Heneghan £1,500
154 Dan Read £1,500
155 Lewis Gurney £1,500
156 Dalibor Smolik £1,250
157 Francois Schweyen £1,250
158 Sven Hilling £1,250
159 Marcel Hausotter £1,250
160 Dmitrijs Zukovs £1,250
161 Marcus Haider £1,250
162 Vitezslav Sedlak £1,250
163 Oskar Lukasiak £1,250
164 Tytus Kanik £1,250
165 Paavo Myller £1,250
166 Nico Kurz £1,250
167 Owen Bates £1,250
168 Christopher Holt £1,000
169 Gary Davey £1,000
170 Jim McEwan £1,000
171 Jim Moston £1,000
172 Jitse van der Wal £1,000
173 Joshua Richardson £1,000
174 Michael Flynn £1,000
175 Dom Taylor £750
176 Callum Goffin £750
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