2016 PDC Pro Tour

Prize money

PDC Tour Cards

Tour Cards

• The top 64 players from the PDC Order of Merit after the 2016 World Championship.
• * resigned his card.
• The 27 of 34 qualifiers from 2015 Q-School not ranked in the top 64 of the PDC Order of Merit following the World Championship.
• * resigned his card.
• Two highest qualifiers from 2015 Challenge Tour.
• * Jan Dekker is also in the top 64 of the PDC Order of Merit, and therefore, a Pro Tour Card was awarded to, who finished third on the Challenge Tour Order of Merit.
• Two highest qualifiers from 2015 Development Tour.
• * Bradley Kirk turned down his Tour Card, which was subsequently awarded to.
• Two highest qualifiers from 2014 Challenge Tour.
• Two highest qualifiers from 2014 Development Tour.
• * Dimitri Van den Bergh is also in the top 64 of the PDC Order of Merit, and therefore, one extra Tour Card was awarded to a Q-School qualifier.
• The winner of the 2015 Scandinavian Order of Merit.
• The 16 qualifiers from 2016 Q-School.

Q-School

UK Open Qualifiers

No.	Date	Venue	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Ref.
1	Friday 5 February	PDCFlagR|Adrian Lewis|b=1PDCFlag|Phil Taylor Players Championships The PDC Players Championships are a series of non-televised darts events that are part of the PDC Pro Tour. As with the last two years, the number of events remained at 20 Players Championship events per year. No. Date Venue Winner Legs Runner-up 1 Saturday 12 March PDCFlagR|Peter Wright|b=1PDCFlag|Adrian Lewis European Tour Compared to 2015, one European Tour event was added to the calendar. In addition, the top 32 of the European Tour qualified for the European Championship. No. Date Venue Location Winner Legs Runner-up Ref. 1 Dutch Darts Masters Venray, EvenementenhalPDCFlagR|Michael van Gerwen|b=1|avg=PDCFlag|Daryl Gurney|avg= PDC Challenge Tour The PDC Unicorn Challenge Tour was open to all PDPA Associate Members who failed to win a Tour Card at Qualifying School. The players who finished first and second received two-year Tour Cards to move onto the PDC Pro Tour in 2017 and 2018. In addition, the players who finished from third to eighth will receive free entry to the 2017 PDC Q-School. No. Date Venue Winner Legs Runner-up Ref. 1 Saturday 19 March PDCFlagR|Chris Quantock|b=1PDCFlag|Rob Cross PDC Development Tour The PDC Unicorn Development Tour is open to players aged 16–23. The Development Tour is expanded from 16 to 20 tournaments, where event number 20 is the PDC Youth World Championship from the Last 64 onwards. The players who finish first and second on the Order of Merit will receive two-year Tour Cards to move onto the PDC Pro Tour in 2017 and 2018. In addition, the players who finish from third to eighth will receive free entry to the 2017 PDC Q-School. No. Date Venue Winner Legs Runner-up Ref. 1 Saturday 26 March PDCFlagR|Callum Loose|b=1PDCFlag|Rowby-John Rodriguez Scandinavian Darts Corporation Pro Tour The Scandinavian Pro Tour had eight events in 2016, with a total of €40,000 on offer. The top player and the runner-up on the SDC Order of Merit 2016 will play in the 2017 World Championship preliminary round. Leading the overall table, Kim Viljanen and Magnus Caris won their places in the 2017 World Championship. No. Date Venue Winner Legs Runner-up Ref. 1 Saturday 30 January PDCFlagR|Per Laursen|org=PDCNB|b=1PDCFlag|Dennis Nilsson|org=PDCNB EuroAsian Darts Corporation (EADC) Pro Tour The 6 EADC Pro Tour events and the 2017 World Championship Qualifier were played at Omega Plaza Business Center, Moscow. Players from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine are eligible to play. No. Date Venue Winner Legs Runner-up Ref. 1 Saturday 27 February PDCFlagR|Boris Koltsov|org=EADC|b=1PDCFlag|Aleksei Kadochnikov|org=EADC Australian Grand Prix Pro Tour The Australian Grand Prix rankings are calculated from events across Australia. The top player in the rankings automatically qualified for the 2017 World Championship. Corey Cadby secured top spot in the Australian Grand Prix rankings and will qualify for the 2017 World Championship. David Platt also won a place in the 2017 World Championship by winning the Oceanic Masters and therefore he will join Cadby and DPNZ qualifier Warren Parry to compete in the World Championship. No. Date Also known as Winner Legs Runner-up Ref. 1 Friday 5 February Chester Hill Open 1 6 – 5 2 Saturday 6 February Chester Hill Open 2 6 – 2 3 Sunday 7 February Chester Hill Open 3 6 – 2 4 Friday 4 March Victoria Open 1 6 – 2 5 Saturday 5 March Victoria Open 2 6 – 5 6 Sunday 6 March Victoria Open 3 6 – 2 7 Saturday 19 March DPA Perth Open 1 6 – 3 8 Sunday 20 March DPA Perth Open 2 6 – 4 9 Saturday 2 April Warilla Bowls Club Open 1 6 – 5 10 Sunday 3 April Warilla Bowls Club Open 2 6 – 5 11 Saturday 30 April NDDA Open 1 6 – 4 12 Sunday 1 May NDDA Open 2 6 – 1 13 Thursday 26 May DPA Australian Singles 6 – 1 14 Friday 27 May DPA Australian Open 6 – 1 15 Friday 24 June Queensland Open 1 6 – 2 16 Saturday 25 June Queensland Open 2 6 – 3 17 Sunday 26 June Queensland Open 3 6 – 0 18 Saturday 30 July Sydney Masters Qualifier 1 6 – 5 19 Sunday 31 July Sydney Masters Qualifier 2 6 – 5 20 Monday 1 August Sydney Masters Qualifier 3 6 – 4 21 Friday 4 November Harrows Australian GP 21 6 – 0 22 Saturday 5 November Harrows Australian GP 22 6 – 5 23 Sunday 6 November Harrows Oceanic Masters 6 – 0 24 Sunday 20 November Harrows Oceanic Classic 6 – 4 Chinese Tour Stages One to Three will count towards the 2016 PDC World Cup of Darts, Stages Four to Seven for the inaugural 2016 Shanghai Darts Masters event and Stage Eight was a qualifier for the 2016 PDC World Youth Championship. Stage Thirteen was for the 2017 PDC World Darts Championship Qualification. No. Date Venue Winner Sets Runner-up Ref. 1 Saturday 2 April PDCFlagR|Dawei Zhang|org=PDCAsia|b=1PDCFlag|Weihong Li|org=PDCAsia World Championship PDPA Qualifier The winner directly qualified for the first round, whereelse the runner-up and the two losers of the semi-finals entered the 2017 PDC World Darts Championship in the preliminary round. Date Venue Winner Score Runner-up Third Fourth Ref. Monday 28 November PDCFlagR|Mark Frost|b=1PDCFlag|Kevin SimmPDCFlag|Simon StevensonPDCFlag|John Bowles