2023 PDC Pro Tour

The 2023 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, as well as 24 events for the Challenge and Development Tours, and the Women's Series.

Prize money

On 21 November 2022, it was announced that the prize money for the Women's Series will be doubled in 2023.
The following day, it was announced that the prize money for Challenge/Development Tour events would also increase, with the prize fund going up from £10,000 to £15,000 per event.
On 15 February 2023, it was announced that the prize money for the PDC European Tour events was to increase by 25% with prize funds increasing from £140,000 to £175,000 per event.
This is how the prize money was divided:

Stage
Winner	£30,000	£12,000	£2,500	£2,000
Runner-up	£12,000	£8,000	£1,000	£1,000
Semi-finalists	£8,500	£4,000	£750	£500
Quarter-finalists	£6,000	£3,000	£500	£300
Last 16	£4,000	£2,000	£300	£200
Last 32	£2,500	£1,250	£200	£100
Last 48	£1,250	N/A	N/A	N/A
Last 64	N/A	£750	£75	£50
Total	£175,000	£100,000	£15,000	£10,000

PDC Tour Card

128 players were granted Tour Cards, which enabled them to participate in all Players Championship events, the UK Open and qualifiers for all European Tour and select televised events.

Tour cards

The 2023 Tour Cards were awarded to:

The top 64 players from the PDC Order of Merit after the 2023 World Championship.
30 qualifiers from 2022 Q-School not ranked in the top 64 of the PDC Order of Merit following the World Championship.
The winner of the 2021 UK Challenge Tour.
*Jim Williams was 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 2021 European Challenge Tour.
The winner of the 2021 UK Development Tour.
The winner of the 2021 European Development Tour.
Two highest qualifiers from 2022 Challenge Tour.
Two highest qualifiers from 2022 Development Tour.
The daily winners from the 2023 Q-Schools.

Afterwards, the playing field was complemented by the highest qualified players from the Q-School Order of Merit until the maximum number of 128 Pro Tour Card players has been reached. In 2023, that meant a total of 19 additional players qualified this way.

Q-School

The PDC Pro Tour Qualifying School was split into a UK and European Q-School. Players that are not from Europe could choose which Q-School to compete in.
Q-School was once again split into two stages; with all players who lost their tour cards after the 2023 World Championship and the players who finished from third to sixteenth in the 2022 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 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 being held between 12 and 15 January. The winner of each day's play in the Final Stage received a PDC Tour Card.
The UK Q-School was held at the Marshall Arena, Milton Keynes, England; with the European Q-School held at Wunderland Kalkar in Kalkar, Germany.
An Order of Merit was created for each Q School. For every win after the Last 64, the players were awarded 1 point.
To complete the field of 128 Tour Card Holders, places were allocated down the final stage Q-School Order of Merits in proportion to the number of participants, with 9 cards going to the UK Q-School and 10 going to the European Q-School.
The following players picked up Tour Cards as a result:
UK Q-School Order of Merit

European Q-School Order of Merit

There were 30 Players Championship events in 2023.

No.	Date	Venue	Winner	Legs	Runner-up	Ref.
1	Saturday 11 February	Barnsley Metrodome, Barnsley		8 – 4
2	Sunday 12 February	Barnsley Metrodome, Barnsley		8 – 3
3	Saturday 18 February	Barnsley Metrodome, Barnsley		8 – 1
4	Sunday 19 February	Barnsley Metrodome, Barnsley		8 – 2
5	Saturday 11 March	Barnsley Metrodome, Barnsley		8 – 6
6	Sunday 12 March	Barnsley Metrodome, Barnsley		8 – 4
7	Sunday 19 March	Halle 39, Hildesheim		8 – 4
8	Monday 20 March	Halle 39, Hildesheim		8 – 5
9	Saturday 15 April	Robin Park Tennis Centre, Wigan		8 – 1
10	Sunday 16 April	Robin Park Tennis Centre, Wigan		8 – 3
11	Saturday 20 May	Leicester Arena, Leicester		8 – 3
12	Sunday 21 May	Leicester Arena, Leicester		8 – 5
13	Monday 12 June	Halle 39, Hildesheim		8 – 7
14	Tuesday 13 June	Halle 39, Hildesheim		8 – 2
15	Monday 10 July	Leicester Arena, Leicester		8 – 7
16	Tuesday 11 July	Leicester Arena, Leicester		8 – 4
17	Saturday 26 August	Halle 39, Hildesheim		8 – 5
18	Sunday 27 August	Halle 39, Hildesheim		8 – 1
19	Sunday 3 September	Barnsley Metrodome, Barnsley		8 – 7
20	Monday 4 September	Barnsley Metrodome, Barnsley		8 – 6
21	Tuesday 5 September	Barnsley Metrodome, Barnsley		8 – 6
22	Wednesday 27 September	Barnsley Metrodome, Barnsley		8 – 7
23	Thursday 28 September	Barnsley Metrodome, Barnsley		8 – 3
24	Friday 29 September	Barnsley Metrodome, Barnsley		8 – 4
25	Wednesday 18 October	Barnsley Metrodome, Barnsley		8 – 4
26	Thursday 19 October	Barnsley Metrodome, Barnsley		8 – 7
27	Friday 20 October	Barnsley Metrodome, Barnsley		8 – 5
28	Saturday 21 October	Barnsley Metrodome, Barnsley		8 – 6
29	Wednesday 1 November	Barnsley Metrodome, Barnsley		8 – 3
30	Thursday 2 November	Barnsley Metrodome, Barnsley		8 – 4