2022 PDC Pro Tour
The 2022 PDC Pro Tour was a series of non-televised darts tournaments organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. Players Championships and European Tour events are the events that make up the Pro Tour. There were thirty Players Championship events and thirteen PDC European Tour events, and after the split format last year, the Challenge and Development Tours returned as one big tour, rather than a UK/European split tour.
Prize money
The prize money for the Players Championship events rose from 2021 levels, with each event having a prize fund of £100,000.This is how the prize money is divided:
| Stage | ||||
| Winner | £25,000 | £12,000 | £2,000 | £1,000 |
| Runner-up | £10,000 | £8,000 | £1,000 | £600 |
| Semi-finalists | £6,500 | £4,000 | £500 | £400 |
| £5,000 | £3,000 | £300 | £250 | |
| Last 16 | £3,000 | £2,000 | £200 | £100 |
| Last 32 | £2,000 | £1,250 | £100 | £50 |
| Last 48 | £1,000 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Last 64 | N/A | £750 | £50 | N/A |
| Total | £140,000 | £100,000 | £10,000 | £5,000 |
PDC Tour Card
128 players are granted Tour Cards, which enables them to participate in all Players Championships events, the UK Open and qualifiers for all European Tour and select televised events.Tour cards
The 2022 Tour Cards are awarded to:- The top 64 players from the PDC Order of Merit after the 2022 World Championship.
- 24 qualifiers from 2021 Q-School not ranked in the top 64 of the PDC Order of Merit following the World Championship.
- * and resigned their Tour Cards after one year.
- Two highest qualifiers from 2020 Challenge Tour.
- Two highest qualifiers from 2020 Development Tour.
- The winner of the 2021 UK Challenge Tour.
- The winner of the 2021 European Challenge Tour.
- The winner of the 2021 UK Development Tour.
- The winner of the 2021 European Development Tour.
- The daily winners from the 2022 Qualifying Schools.
Q-School
The PDC Pro Tour Qualifying School was split into a UK and European Q-School. Players that are not from Europe can choose which Q-School they want to compete in.Q-School was once again be split into two stages; with all players who lost their tour cards after the 2022 World Championship and the players who finished from second to fourth in the 2021 Challenge Tour and Development Tour Orders of Merit exempted to the final stage. The first stage consisted a block of three days, with the last eight players on each day qualifying into the final stage. A ranking of other players was also be produced with players qualifying via that ranking to produce a full list of 128 players for each final stage.
Stage One took place between 9–11 January; with the Final Stage held between 12 and 15 January. The winner of each day's play in the Final Stage were given a PDC Tour Card.
The UK Q-School was held at the Marshall Arena, Milton Keynes, England; with the European Q-School held at the H+ Hotel, Niedernhausen, Germany.
An Order of Merit was created for each Q School. For every win after the Last 64, the players will be awarded 1 point.
To complete the field of 128 Tour Card Holders, places were allocated down the final Q-School Order of Merits in proportion to the number of participants, with 13 cards going to the UK Q-School and 11 going to the European Q-School.
The following players picked up Tour Cards as a result:
UK Q-School Order of Merit
Players Championships
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| 1 | Barnsley Metrodome, PDCFlagR|Luke Humphries|b=1|avg=nowrap|8 – 4PDCFlag|Ryan Searle|avg=nowrap|Sunday 6 FebruaryEuropean TourThe PDC European Tour returned to the pre-pandemic level of 13 events, having been reduced to four events in 2020, and just two in 2021. On 9 February 2022, the Belgian Darts Open, originally scheduled for 25–27 March was rescheduled to 23–25 September, owing to COVID-19 restrictions in Belgium.
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