|
Prize
Money |
|
|
Men's
Champion: |
£85,000 |
|
Runner-up: |
£30,000 |
|
Semi-Finalists: |
£11,000
x 2 |
|
Quarter-Finalists: |
£6,000
x 4 |
|
Second
Round: |
£4,250
x 8 |
|
First
Round: |
£3,000
x 16 |
|
|
|
|
Women's
Champion: |
£6,000 |
|
Runner-Up |
£2,000 |
|
Semi-Finalists: |
£1,000
x 2 |
|
Quarter-Finalists: |
£500
x 4 |
|
|
|
|
9-Dart
501: |
£52,000 |
|
|
|
|
Highest
Checkout: |
£3,000 |
|
|
|
|
Total
Prize Fund: |
£310,000 |
In
it’s inaugural year of 1978, total prize money was £10,500 and the
first ever World Champion, Leighton Rees of Wales, received a cheque for
£3,000. This year the prize money was somewhat more for the flagship
B.D.O. World Championship Knock Out.
John
Boy Walton hit a 9 darter in the recent Masters when he lost to Robert
Thornton and if he had done the same in the 2008 B.D.O. Championship he
would have received £52,000 for that alone. However this time he could
not find enough form when he played him again in the 1st round
and lost. Phil Nixon played Martin “Wolfie” Adams in the final last
year, but gave him an easy game this time losing 3-0 in the 1st
round to him. Adams was in tears from the stress during an interview afterwards. Andy Boulton from the Potteries got through the first round and
then lost to old timer Ted “The Count” Hankey. Co Stompe was pleased
to get through the first round only to lose to Brian Woods.
Co
Stompe’s team mates did not fare much better as all 6 Dutch players had
gone out by the Quarter Finals.
Ted
Hankey went out to Simon Whitlock and Robert Thornton went out Martin
Adams as well in the Quarters.
In
the semis Adams played very well, but Webster had the edge in the end. At
one time Webster thought he was going to lose it as he was going down, but
he pulled back and went on to take it. Mark Webster is the Number 1 seed
for Wales even though he is only 24 years old. Webster who is training to
be a plumber lost in the 1st round last year, but played superb
darts throughout the competition this time and made it to the final.
The
other losing semi finalist was Brian Woods who lost comfortably to Australian Simon
Whitlock.
Webster
and Whitlock both produced some excellent darts in the final which featured 30 X 180s with 15 coming from each player. Webster had a
final match dart average of 30.69 and Whitlock 31.31.
It
was
a very
close final with brilliant scoring and was a worthy end to such a prestigious competition.
Mark
Webster played in the first leg of the tournament and threw the very last
dart at the close of the competition.