Its one of my favourite tournaments of the year this week, the Players Championship final 2017, held at Butlins Minehead.
I love this as it gives a chance of television time to players you won’t usually see on TV events as they are outside of the top 16 and 32.
Now that’s not a knock on the PDC, however some of the tournaments are top xx only, which means that you are seeing the same matches (however fantastic quality) over and over again, whereas I like the idea of floor events where anyone can qualify.
In-fact at £100,000 for the winner, it’s a fantastic opportunity for players lower down the top 64 to rocket up the OOM, crack the top 16 or secure their position.
There is a helluva lot to play for.
This could be a breakthrough tournament for Rob Cross, as he has excelled on the pro tour this year winning 4 events and topping the tour order of merit (oom), is getting better by the month and is arguably the newcomer of the year.
Whilst I’d love for it to be an upset winner it will be hard to look past MVG who has won this in 3 of the last 4 years, 2014 winner Gary Anderson and Peter Wright (who won the UK Open and has been a finalist in Matchplay, Grandslam and Premier League events this year).
I’m therefore going to cop out and choose 2, 1 from the favourite pile and 1 from the outsider section.
Favourite: Gary Anderson
Outsider: Rob Cross
Lets’ see how it unfolds
Luke
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