Lowe full of praise for World Seniors debut: "It should have happened 10 years ago"

John Lowe competed at the World Seniors Darts Championship and while admitting it would likely be the last time, he was full of praise for the tournament in a recent interview publicising an exhibition in Kirkcaldy.

"It's strange because we've not done it for so long it's been difficult to get back into it in terms of competitiveness," he said to Fife Today.

“I first played in the BDO, then moved to the PDC, now I'm in the Seniors. Really, I've been there since the beginning and I think the Seniors is the best thing to have happened.

“It had a Scot as world champion in Robert Thornton. We now follow that up with the Masters at Lakeside, then there's the World Matchplay in Hull.

"This is the next step for us guys who reach 50 and then don't want to compete in the younger tour, or just move over.

“It should have happened 10 years ago, but it's here and it's a good thing.”

On current crop of darting stars

'Old Stoneface' also gave his point of view on the current crop of darting talent at the top of the game.

"There's a lot of players coming through from Europe. They seem to be giving it everything, 24 hours a day and there's some really good players.

"Dimitri Van den Bergh is a great player. He's already won the World Matchplay and there's others coming through from places like Romania and Italy - places that were never even counted for darts - because they can see that there's a good livelihood to be made.

“The money is colossal. Peter Wright has made over a million in the last year - and that's during covid!

“He's done that by playing to no audience with more or less most of it having just been streamed.”