Berry van Peer will return to the PDC Pro Tour circuit in at least 2021 and 2022. Bionic secured a PDC Tour Card through the Development Tour.
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The 24-year-old Dutchman was in a fierce battle with fellow countryman Damian Mol for the third place on the PDC Development Tour Order of Merit. Normally the top two in the rankings will receive a Tour Card, but number one Ryan Meikle already has one for next season.
The last six Development Tour tournaments of the season were played from Friday to Sunday. Mol won the tournament on Friday evening and also reached two semi-finals. Van Peer, who had a lead over his fellow Dutchman prior to this weekend, reached three semi-finals before the final event.
The battle was decided in the last event. Mol lost 4-2 to Owen Roelofs in the last sixteen, while he should have achieved a better result than Van Peer. That did not happen, because the latter reached the semi-finals.
Van Peer previously owned a Tour Card in 2016 and 2017. Because he reached the final of the PDC World Youth Championship in 2016, the Dutchman was allowed to participate in the Grand Slam of Darts in 2017. Van Peer became famous during that tournament due to his visible struggle with dartitis, which prevented him from properly throwing his darts away.
I stumbled into the world of darts quite by accident back in 2013. For a Journalism School assignment, I had to produce a live sports report and as it happened, the European Tour event in Veldhoven was the only available option. That weekend, I caught the darts bug. The post-match interviews especially appealed to me, as darts players tend to be much more open and approachable than what you usually see with footballers on television.
After a few detours, I joined Dartsnieuws.com in 2017 as editor-in-chief. I don’t have much competitive experience myself, although I once entered a PDC Development Tour weekend just to experience what it’s like from a player’s perspective. I even managed to win a leg against a Tour Card holder and, quite by accident, earned £50 in prize money.
In 2022, I was also involved in the founding of the TOTO Dart Kings, a commercial darts team, where I worked as media manager for three years. Unfortunately, due to new legislation in the Netherlands, that project came to an end in 2025.
Through my work in darts, I’ve been fortunate to travel to some incredible events, from Premier League nights at Ahoy Rotterdam, to several World Championships, and even the US Darts Masters at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Beyond darts, I’m a passionate sports fan in general. You can always wake me up for a game of tennis or padel, and I love following football, tennis, padel, cycling, Formula 1, and ice skating.