Luke Humphries tops the PDC Development Tour Order of Merit after winning two of the four events which took place across the weekend at the Robin Park Tennis Centre in Wigan. The 22-year-old won the first event of the year with victory over Canada’s Dawson Murschell in the final.
Humphries then triumphed in Sunday’s fourth and final event of the weekend; defeating Kenny Neyens in the final. The Newbury ace has accrued £4,000 in prize money and sits directly above Neyens, who enjoyed a fine weekend himself. The young Belgian hit a nine-darter in Saturday’s action, before going on to reach two finals.
Ryan Meikle sits in third place after securing his maiden Development Tour title on Sunday afternoon. The 20-year-old Suffolk ace has enjoyed a strong start to 2017; having already sealed his qualification for next month’s Coral UK Open Finals, and he continued his fine form to defeat 19-year-old Harry Ward to win event three.
Dimitri van den Bergh is in fourth place after winning Saturday’s second event. ‘The Dream-Maker’ defeated Humphries to kick off his campaign, before defeating his compatriot Neyens to scoop the £2,000 prize and secure his seventh Development Tour title of his career.
Adam Hunt is in fifth place after reaching the semi-finals twice over the weekend, whilst losing finalists Ward and Murschell are sixth and seventh respectively. Ted Evetts is eighth after reaching the semi-finals of event four, whilst young German Martin Schindler and Rowby-John Rodriguez make up the top ten on the Order of Merit.
Dutchman Berry van Peer, who lost to Corey Cadby in last year’s World Youth final, is tied in 39th position after accruing £250 in prize money across the weekend. Elsewhere, 17-year-old Justin van Tergouw, who was crowned BDO World Youth Champion in January, won just £200 on his Development Tour debut.
| Pos | Name | Prize Money |
| 1 | Luke Humphries | £4,000 |
| 2 | Kenny Neyens | £2,550 |
| 3 | Ryan Meikle | £2,500 |
| 4 | Dimitri van den Bergh | £2,350 |
| 5 | Adam Hunt | £1,700 |
| 6 | Harry Ward | £1,150 |
| 7 | Dawson Murschell | £1,050 |
| 8 | Ted Evetts | £1,000 |
| 9 | Martin Schindler | £900 |
| 10 | Rowby-John Rodriguez | £850 |
| 11 | Ronnie Roberts | £800 |
| 12 | Jimmy Hendriks | £750 |
| 13 | Andrew Davidson | £650 |
| = | Steve Lennon | £650 |
| 15 | Nico Blum | £550 |
| = | Rhys Hayden | £550 |
| = | Rob Hewson | £550 |
| = | Stephen Rosney | £550 |
| 19 | Mike De Decker | £500 |
| = | Rhys Griffin | £500 |
| 21 | Daniel Cole | £400 |
| = | Sonny Johal | £400 |
| = | Josh Payne | £400 |
| 24 | Charlie Beaumont | £350 |
| = | Scott Dale | £350 |
| = | Sven Groen | £350 |
| = | Sam Head | £350 |
| = | Rusty-Jake Rodriguez | £350 |
| 29 | Mark Baxter | £300 |
| = | Justin Bradshaw | £300 |
| = | Lee Budgen | £300 |
| = | Mike van Duivenbode | £300 |
| = | Dean Finn | £300 |
| = | Liam Freeman | £300 |
| = | Sam Hewson | £300 |
| = | Daniel Jensen | £300 |
| = | Callum Loose | £300 |
| = | Kevin de Vries | £300 |
| 39 | Scott Jackson | £250 |
| = | Ryan Jones | £250 |
| = | George Killington | £250 |
| = | Berry van Peer | £250 |
| = | Brian Raman | £250 |
| = | Adam Smith-Neale | £250 |
| = | Jordan Thomas | £250 |
| 46 | Callum Goffin | £200 |
| = | Fabian Herz | £200 |
| = | Thomas Lovely | £200 |
| = | Callum Matthews | £200 |
| = | Jordan Matthews | £200 |
| = | Geert Nentjes | £200 |
| = | Kurt Parry | £200 |
| = | Justin van Tergouw | £200 |
| 54 | James Carroll | £150 |
| = | Joshua Church | £150 |
| = | Sam Cromwell | £150 |
| = | Owen Emmett-Bowden | £150 |
| = | Jake Jones | £150 |
| = | Rhys Julian | £150 |
| = | Jack Main | £150 |
| = | Conor Mayes | £150 |
| = | Matthew Moore | £150 |
| = | Adam Paxton | £150 |
| = | Greg Ritchie | £150 |
| = | James Smith | £150 |
| = | James Thompson | £150 |
| = | Brandon Walsh | £150 |
| 68 | Andy Alker | £100 |
| = | Dylan van Beek | £100 |
| = | William Borland | £100 |
| = | Connor Bowler | £100 |
| = | Roy Brands | £100 |
| = | John Brown | £100 |
| = | Reece Colley | £100 |
| = | Aiden Cope | £100 |
| = | Zak Cross | £100 |
| = | Nicholas Day | £100 |
| = | Jack Dickinson | £100 |
| = | Mark Emmett-Bowden | £100 |
| = | Arron Fairweather | £100 |
| = | George Gardner | £100 |
| = | Job ten Heuvel | £100 |
| = | Ryan Hoggarth | £100 |
| = | Daniel Key | £100 |
| = | Viggo van der Kuijl | £100 |
| = | Brandonn Monk | £100 |
| = | Lewis Pride | £100 |
| = | Nathan Rafferty | £100 |
| = | Connor Scutt | £100 |
| = | Jack Seymour | £100 |
| = | Justin Smith | £100 |
| = | Kevin Troppmann | £100 |
| 93 | Ben Adams | £50 |
| = | Luis Barberan | £50 |
| = | Patrick van den Boogaard | £50 |
| = | Jamie Branton | £50 |
| = | Jamie Britten | £50 |
| = | Bradley Brooks | £50 |
| = | Sam Carter | £50 |
| = | Ben Chance | £50 |
| = | Sam Chance | £50 |
| = | Jacob Paul John Cooksey | £50 |
| = | Shaun Devonald | £50 |
| = | Brad Ellis | £50 |
| = | Tony Field | £50 |
| = | Pascal Herwig | £50 |
| = | Cas Hogenhout | £50 |
| = | Billy Holmes | £50 |
| = | Sean Johnson | £50 |
| = | Joseph Kelly | £50 |
| = | Jack Kerr | £50 |
| = | Alfie Lazar-Woodward | £50 |
| = | Tommy Lishman | £50 |
| = | Robert Ludlow | £50 |
| = | Craig Morgan | £50 |
| = | Luke Nelson | £50 |
| = | Ryan O’Connor | £50 |
| = | Sebastian Pohl | £50 |
| = | Casper Rasmussen | £50 |
| = | Paul Reid | £50 |
| = | Shane Reidy | £50 |
| = | Joshua Richardson | £50 |
| = | Callan Rydz | £50 |
| = | Zac Sanders | £50 |
| = | Jordan Singh | £50 |
| = | Kieran J Smith | £50 |
| = | Charlie Symons | £50 |
| = | Luciano Tardio | £50 |
| = | Daniel Thomas | £50 |
| = | Adam Watson | £50 |
| = | James Wilkinson | £50 |
| = | Nico Ziemann | £50 |
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