I hope that you, like me, sat and watched the ‘remastered’ WINMAU World Masters on TV or another platform in early February. What a feast of excellent darts!
If you didn’t, then play catch up as soon as you can as you missed one of the favourites, Holland’s Michael van Gerwen, closely losing out 4-3 to Belgium’s Dimitri Van Den Bergh in the last 16 and Luke ‘The Nuke’ Littler, who almost everyone thought would make it to the final, was dispatched 4-2 by Jonny Clayton in the quarter finals.
Thus, it was Wales’ Jonny ‘The Ferret’ Clayton and Luke ‘Cool Hand’ Humphries who had fought their ways through to the Final; a final that held the crowd and the viewers engrossed, which culminated with Humphries, the 2024 PDC World Champion, lifting the glorious new WINMAU World Masters trophy and pocketing £100,000 in prize money. (Clayton, as runner-up, won £50,000.)
The original WINMAU World Masters lasted from 1976 to 2018. I can see the ‘remastered’ WINMAU World Masters outliving even that record.
(The image above shows, left to right, Vince Bluck, Managing Director of WINMAU, Jonny, Luke, and Simon Hall, Marketing Director of WINMAU. Image © 2025 PDC. Used with permission.)
(c) 2025 Patrick Chaplin.
Dr Patrick Chaplin 