Wright on managing busy calendar: "If you go to everything, you're going to go to your grave pretty early"

Peter Wright admits that recent health scares suffered by the darting elite including himself should serve as a warning to pick and choose amid a busy schedule.

Wright suffers from gallstones and will need surgery likely and says even those really healthy like Gerwyn Price have struggled the rigours of the darting schedule.

“I’ve had an appointment on the scan, it is gallstones and I’m just waiting on the surgeon to tell me what they’re going to do,” Wright told Online Darts TV ahead of this weekend’s US Darts Masters in New York.

“Then, however long the recovery is, I’ll just have to deal with it. [The advice is] don’t eat fatty foods, don’t eat greasy foods, don’t have lots of butter on your crumpets, which is… you can’t do it without. But as long as I’m being sensible I shouldn’t aggravate it and it shouldn’t get any worse.”

“It’s up to yourself to choose if you don’t go to everything [tournaments]. If you go to everything, you’re going to go to your grave pretty early, unfortunately, even if you’re really healthy.

“There’s Gezzy [Price], who’s a really fit guy, and even he’s struggled mentally with it [the schedule]. Sometimes there’s only one day off and I’m away from home until the 20th of June.”