Legacy

“Claiming your first World Championship is a great achievement for any player... I knew I needed another to prove to everyone that I was a worthy champion. 

Leighton Rees staked his claim to darting immortality at the first official World Championships. His defeat of John Lowe, in the final, capped the...

Just think that, in the modern era, he would still have been eligible for the World Youth Championship and the Development Tour!

Over the course of the year, Darts World paid tribute to some of the game’s important characters while looking forward to big events yet to come. DW even noticed the ever-growing importance of women, though not always in ways acceptable today,  in every aspect of the rapidly growing game.

DARTS NEWS, and hence our own reports, had, for more than a year been centered around a new event. The World Masters had started...

Our 1974 article outlines the initial stages of this venerable event and gives a clue to the processes going on behind the scenes at the time.

This article, from Issue 2, is essentially a scoop on the birth of the BDO. The 'Super Teams' are in fact the early Counties...

In the early 1970s, a handful of ingredients were coming together to form the recipe for the huge success of the hitherto lesser-known pub game of Darts. Darts World Magazine was one of those ingredients.

The two stars of the darts world will take to the oche to participate in the ‘Challenge Darts Legend’ ...