About World Championship Men 2015

Champion
2015 BDO World Championship Photographer: David Gill/BDO Scott Mitchell
Total Prize Pool £300,000
Champion
£100,000
Runner-up
£35,000
Semi finalists
£15,000
Quarter finalists
£6,500
Last 16
£4,500
Last 32
£3,250
Last 40
£2,000
High finish
£5,000

The Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship 2015 was held from 3-11 January. For the thirtieth time the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green was the host for the tournament.

There would come a new name on the trophy in 2015. Englishman Scott Mitchell won a thrilling final 7-6 in sets of Martin Adams. Mitchell certainly did not get is easy this year. In the first round he already had a sudden-death leg shootout against another veteran; Tony O'Shea. He then beat Geert de Vos, Brian Dawson and Jeff Smith en route to the final.

For Martin Adams it was his first final in three years. Wolfie survived a number of matchdarts against Glen Durrant in the semi-finals. His other matches were won against Jan Dekker, Jim Widmayer and Ross Montgomery.

Already in the first round the first ranked James Wilson went out. He lost to the Swede Peter Sajwani. But he was not alone. The number five in the world and reigning Winmau World Master Martin Phillips went home after one match at the expense of Madars Razma. The number eight of the seeding list Wesley Harms also went down. The Canadian Jeff Smith defeated the Dutchman and would get to the semi-finals.

None of the seven Dutch players who played Lakeside this year passed the first round. Only Michel van der Horst won his first match, but that was a preliminary round match. Since 1992, it had not happened that there was no Dutchman in round two of the Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship.

World Championship Men 2015

Lakeside Country Club in
Frimley Green, ENG
Organizer:
World Darts Federation
Sponsor:
Lakeside BDO
Participants:
40
Prize Pool:
£300,000
Start Date:
3 Jan 2015
End Date:
11 Jan 2015
24 days
04 hours
43 minutes
52 seconds
Lakeside Country Club in
Frimley Green, ENG
29 Nov - 8 Dec Date
£158,000 Prize
Andy Baetens Reigning Champion