About World Championship Men 1991

Champion
1991 BDO World Darts Championship Photographer: BDO Dennis Priestley
Total Prize Pool £109,200
Champion
£26,000
Runner-up
£13,000
Semi finalists
£6,500
Quarter finalists
£3,250
Last 16
£2,400
Last 32
£1,500
High finish
£1,000

The 1991 Embassy World Darts Championship was held at the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green, Surrey from 4–12 January 1991. Phil Taylor was the reigning World Champion and started off well in the early rounds, before losing in the quarter-finals to Dennis Priestley who took the title.

January 5th saw future champion Raymond Barneveld from Holland make his Lakeside debut, however 11 legs later it was all over. Keith Sullivan dropping just two legs in the battle of the debutants. A first round clash saw Peter Evison (seeded 2) against twice champion John Lowe. The Game, a very tight affair, saw Evison edge through 3-2 with a 91.02 average. The first time, Lowe had been eliminated in the first round at the World Championships.

Dennis Priestley knocked out number one seed Phil Taylor in the quarter finals before he beat 1988 Champion Bob Anderson in the semi finals. In the final he whitewashed number three seed and five times champion Eric Bristow. It was Bristow’s tenth and last final appearance at a World Championship. Priestley became the third player after Keith Deller in 1983 and Taylor in 1990 to win the Embassy at their first try, not including Leighton Rees who won the first ever edition

World Championship Men 1991

Lakeside Country Club in
Frimley Green, ENG
Organizer:
World Darts Federation
Sponsor:
Embassy BDO
Participants:
32
Prize Pool:
£109,200
Start Date:
4 Jan 1991
End Date:
12 Jan 1991
05 days
22 hours
18 minutes
26 seconds
Lakeside Country Club in
Frimley Green, ENG
28 Nov - 7 Dec Date
Shane McGuirk Reigning Champion