2017 Grand Slam of Darts

2017 bwin Grand Slam of Darts
Tournament information
Dates	11–19 November 2017
Venue	Wolverhampton Civic Hall
Location	Wolverhampton
Country	England
Organisation(s)	PDC
Format	Legs
Prize fund	£450,000
Winner's share	£110,000
High checkout	170 Rob Cross 170 Peter Wright
Champion(s)
Michael van Gerwen
«2016 2018»

The 2017 Grand Slam of Darts, was the eleventh staging of the tournament, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The event took place from 11–19 November 2017 at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, England.

The tournament's defending champion was Michael van Gerwen, who won the tournament in 2016 by defeating James Wade 16–8 in the final. He retained his title for a 3rd consecutive year by beating Peter Wright 16–12 in this year's final.^[1]

Prize money

The prize fund for the Grand Slam was increased from £400,000 in 2016 to £450,000 in 2017, with the winner getting £110,000, as opposed to £100,000.^[2]

Qualifying

PDC qualifying tournaments

PDC Main Tournaments
Tournament	Year	Position	Player		Qualifiers
PDC World Darts Championship	2017	Winner	Michael van Gerwen[3]		Michael van Gerwen Phil Taylor Daryl Gurney Corey Cadby Peter Wright Mensur Suljović Raymond van Barneveld Gary Anderson James Wade Simon Whitlock Berry van Peer Gerwyn Price Rob Cross Dave Chisnall Mark Webster
Grand Slam of Darts	2016	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
Premier League Darts	2017	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
World Matchplay	2017	Winner	Phil Taylor[4]
World Grand Prix	2017	Winner	Daryl Gurney
PDC World Youth Championship	2016	Winner	Corey Cadby[3]
Masters	2017	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
UK Open	2017	Winner	Peter Wright[3]
European Championship	2017	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
Players Championship Finals	2016	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
Champions League of Darts	2017	Winner	Mensur Suljović
World Series of Darts Finals	2017	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
PDC World Cup of Darts	2017	Winners	Michael van Gerwen Raymond van Barneveld[3]
PDC World Darts Championship	2017	Runner-Up	Gary Anderson[3]
Grand Slam of Darts	2016	Runner-Up	James Wade[3]
Premier League Darts	2017	Runner-Up	Peter Wright
World Matchplay	2017	Runner-Up	Peter Wright
World Grand Prix	2017	Runner-Up	Simon Whitlock
PDC World Youth Championship	2016	Runner-Up	Berry van Peer[3]
Masters	2017	Runner-Up	Gary Anderson
UK Open	2017	Runner-Up	Gerwyn Price[3]
European Championship	2017	Runner-Up	Rob Cross
Players Championship Finals	2016	Runner-Up	Dave Chisnall[3]
Champions League of Darts	2017	Runner-Up	Gary Anderson
World Series of Darts Finals	2017	Runner-Up	Gary Anderson
PDC World Cup of Darts	2017	Runners-Up	Gerwyn Price Mark Webster[3]
Note: Players in italics had already qualified for the tournament.

At most sixteen players could qualify through this method, where the position in the list depicts the priority of the qualification.

In case the list of qualifiers from the main tournaments produced fewer than sixteen players, the field of sixteen players is filled from the reserve lists. The first list consists of the winners from 2017 European Tour events, in which the winners shall be selected in Order of Merit position order at the cut-off date.^[3]

PDC European Tour
Tournament	Event	Position	Player		Qualifiers
2017 European Tour
	German Darts Championship	Winner	Peter Wright		Michael Smith
	German Darts Masters	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	German Darts Open	Winner	Peter Wright
	European Darts Grand Prix	Winner	Peter Wright
	Gibraltar Darts Trophy	Winner	Michael Smith[5]
	European Darts Matchplay	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	Austrian Darts Open	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	European Darts Open	Winner	Peter Wright
	Dutch Darts Masters	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	German Darts Grand Prix	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	International Darts Open	Winner	Peter Wright
	European Darts Trophy	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
Note: Players in italics had already qualified for the tournament.

Had there still been less than sixteen qualified players after the winners of European Tour events were added, the winners of 2017 Players Championships events would have been added, followed by the winners of qualifying tournaments for the 2017 UK Open.^[3] As there are already 16 qualified players after the first two qualification methods, no player will qualify via Players Championships and UK Open qualifying events. This resulted in Adrian Lewis missing the tournament for the first time.

PDC qualifying event

A further eight places in the Grand Slam of Darts will be filled by qualifiers from a PDC qualifier that took place in Wigan on 6 November. These are the qualifiers:

• James Wilson
• Robbie Green
• Joe Murnan
• Alan Norris
• Jeffrey de Zwaan
• Darren Webster
• Steve Lennon
• Stephen Bunting

BDO qualifying tournaments

Tournament	Year	Position	Player
BDO World Darts Championship	2017	Winner	Glen Durrant[3]
		Runner-Up	Danny Noppert[3]
World Masters	2016	Winner	Glen Durrant
BDO World Trophy	2017	Winner	Peter Machin[3]

BDO ranking qualifiers

The remaining five BDO representatives were the top five non-qualified players from the BDO Invitational Rankings at 30 September 2017.^[3]

The five qualifiers were confirmed on 10 October 2017, and were:^[6]

• Mark McGeeney
• Jamie Hughes
• Scott Mitchell
• Ross Montgomery
• Cameron Menzies

Pools

Draw

Group stage

All group matches are best of nine legs
After three games, the top two in each group qualify for the knock-out stage
NB in Brackets: Number = Seeds; BDO = BDO Darts player; Q = Qualifier
NB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs for; LA = Legs against; +/− = Plus/minus record, in relation to legs; Pts = Points; Status = Qualified to knockout stage

Group A Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1 Michael van Gerwen (1) 3 3 0 15 7 +8 6 Q 2 Rob Cross 3 2 1 14 8 +6 4 3 Ross Montgomery (BDO) 3 1 2 8 13 –5 2 Eliminated 4 Joe Murnan (Q) 3 0 3 6 15 –9 0 11 November 100.95 Michael van Gerwen 5 – 1 Ross Montgomery 97.24 103.87 Rob Cross 5 – 1 Joe Murnan 87.26 12 November 108.28 Michael van Gerwen 5 – 4 Rob Cross 104.70 86.29 Joe Murnan 3 – 5 Ross Montgomery 100.96 14 November 108.29 Michael van Gerwen 5 – 2 Joe Murnan 93.40 105.76 Rob Cross 5 – 2 Ross Montgomery 87.43

Group B Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1 Raymond van Barneveld (8) 3 3 0 15 7 +8 6 Q 2 Steve Lennon (Q) 3 1 2 10 10 0 2 3 Gerwyn Price 3 1 2 10 13 –3 2 Eliminated 4 Jamie Hughes (BDO) 3 1 2 6 11 –5 2 11 November 98.77 Raymond van Barneveld 5 – 1 Jamie Hughes 85.13 102.83 Gerwyn Price 5 – 3 Steve Lennon 96.90 12 November 98.81 Raymond van Barneveld 5 – 4 Gerwyn Price 101.10 100.20 Steve Lennon 5 – 0 Jamie Hughes 74.29 14 November 98.37 Raymond van Barneveld 5 – 2 Steve Lennon 94.74 89.45 Gerwyn Price 1 – 5 Jamie Hughes 92.34

Group C Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1 Phil Taylor (5) 3 2 1 13 10 +3 4 Q 2 James Wade 3 2 1 11 9 +2 4 3 Robbie Green (Q) 3 1 2 12 11 +1 2 Eliminated 4 Peter Machin (BDO) 3 1 2 7 13 –6 2 11 November 99.13 Phil Taylor 5 – 1 Peter Machin 85.82 83.74 James Wade 1 – 5 Robbie Green 88.42 12 November 99.39 Phil Taylor 5 – 4 Robbie Green 98.98 91.47 James Wade 5 – 1 Peter Machin 85.12 14 November 84.88 Phil Taylor 3 – 5 James Wade 90.84 79.06 Robbie Green 3 – 5 Peter Machin 79.53

Group D Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1 Daryl Gurney (4) 3 3 0 15 5 +10 6 Q 2 Darren Webster (Q) 3 1 2 9 12 –3 2 Nine Dart Shootout 2 Mark Webster 3 1 2 10 13 –3 2 4 Danny Noppert (BDO) 3 1 2 8 12 –4 2 Eliminated 11 November 97.00 Daryl Gurney 5 – 1 Danny Noppert 92.65 86.07 Darren Webster 3 – 5 Mark Webster 90.51 12 November 96.08 Daryl Gurney 5 – 3 Mark Webster 90.55 103.44 Darren Webster 5 – 2 Danny Noppert 98.57 14 November 98.80 Daryl Gurney 5 – 1 Darren Webster 88.59 92.52 Mark Webster 2 – 5 Danny Noppert 90.08

Nine dart shootout With Mark Webster and Darren Webster finishing level on points and leg difference, a nine-dart shootout between the two took place to see who would play the Group C winner Phil Taylor in the second round. The match took place after the conclusion of Tuesday's group matches, and was the second year in succession that a nine-dart shootout was required. Mark Webster threw first. POS Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Pts Status 2 Darren Webster 20 60 20 60 1 60 20 3 57 301 Advanced to the last 16 3 Mark Webster 60 60 20 20 19 19 20 60 20 298 Eliminated

Group E Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1 Glen Durrant (BDO) 3 2 1 14 10 +4 4 Q 2 Peter Wright (2) 3 2 1 12 9 +3 4 3 Alan Norris (Q) 3 1 2 12 14 −2 2 Eliminated 4 Corey Cadby 3 1 2 9 14 −5 2 11 November 102.84 Peter Wright 2 – 5 Glen Durrant 106.05 86.82 Alan Norris 5 – 4 Corey Cadby 85.33 12 November 92.78 Alan Norris 3 – 5 Glen Durrant 103.50 98.88 Peter Wright 5 – 0 Corey Cadby 90.21 13 November 97.49 Corey Cadby 5 – 4 Glen Durrant 96.80 98.68 Peter Wright 5 – 4 Alan Norris 92.50

Group F Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1 Stephen Bunting (Q) 3 3 0 15 10 +5 6 Q 2 Dave Chisnall (7) 3 1 2 11 12 −1 2 3 Scott Mitchell (BDO) 3 1 2 11 13 −2 2 Eliminated 4 Jeffrey de Zwaan (Q) 3 1 2 12 14 −2 2 11 November 93.30 Dave Chisnall 5 – 2 Scott Mitchell 100.02 97.02 Stephen Bunting 5 – 4 Jeffrey de Zwaan 96.69 12 November 85.43 Dave Chisnall 2 – 5 Stephen Bunting 90.55 91.80 Jeffrey de Zwaan 3 – 5 Scott Mitchell 86.95 13 November 96.58 Dave Chisnall 4 – 5 Jeffrey de Zwaan 98.08 97.28 Stephen Bunting 5 – 4 Scott Mitchell 93.50

Group G Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1 Mensur Suljović (6) 3 3 0 15 10 +5 6 Q 2 Michael Smith 3 2 1 14 12 +2 4 3 James Wilson (Q) 3 1 2 12 12 0 2 Eliminated 4 Mark McGeeney (BDO) 3 0 3 8 15 −7 0 11 November 93.83 Mensur Suljović 5 – 2 Mark McGeeney 81.03 97.13 Michael Smith 5 – 3 James Wilson 91.91 12 November 102.84 Mensur Suljović 5 – 4 Michael Smith 100.79 92.47 James Wilson 5 – 2 Mark McGeeney 85.22 13 November 98.48 Mensur Suljović 5 – 4 James Wilson 99.72 104.90 Michael Smith 5 – 4 Mark McGeeney 100.40

Group H Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1 Gary Anderson (3) 3 3 0 15 6 +9 6 Q 2 Berry van Peer 3 2 1 11 13 −2 4 3 Cameron Menzies (BDO) 3 1 2 12 12 0 2 Eliminated 4 Simon Whitlock 3 0 3 8 15 −7 0 11 November 96.55 Gary Anderson 5 – 3 Cameron Menzies 91.98 86.48 Simon Whitlock 4 – 5 Berry van Peer 87.00 12 November 111.79 Gary Anderson 5 – 1 Berry van Peer 68.85 90.31 Simon Whitlock 2 – 5 Cameron Menzies 90.79 13 November 104.73 Gary Anderson 5 – 2 Simon Whitlock 96.43 81.19 Berry van Peer 5 – 4 Cameron Menzies 81.52

Knockout stage

Second round (best of 19 legs) 15–16 November [7][8]

Quarter-finals (best of 31 legs) 17–18 November [9][10]

Semi-finals (best of 31 legs) 19 November [11]

Final (best of 31 legs) 19 November [11]

A1

Michael van Gerwen (1) 104.98

10

B2

Steve Lennon (Q) 94.27

3

A1

Michael van Gerwen (1) 104.26

16

A2

Rob Cross 102.54

13

B1

Raymond van Barneveld (8) 98.30

7

A2

Rob Cross 103.87

10

A1

Michael van Gerwen (1) 106.87

16

C1

Phil Taylor (5) 98.09

8

C1

Phil Taylor (5) 101.04

10

D2

Darren Webster (Q) 88.21

4

C1

Phil Taylor (5) 103.97

16

D1

Daryl Gurney (4) 96.43

4

D1

Daryl Gurney (4) 94.62

10

C2

James Wade 90.02

2

A1

Michael van Gerwen (1) 102.18

16

E2

Peter Wright (2) 97.71

12

E1

Glen Durrant (BDO) 99.33

10

F2

Dave Chisnall (7) 96.01

8

E1

Glen Durrant (BDO) 92.58

10

E2

Peter Wright (2) 93.68

16

F1

Stephen Bunting (Q) 96.64

4

E2

Peter Wright (2) 103.69

10

E2

Peter Wright (2) 100.69

16

H1

Gary Anderson (3) 98.81

15

G1

Mensur Suljović (6) 105.84

10

H2

Berry van Peer 95.39

2

G1

Mensur Suljović (6) 94.56

12

H1

Gary Anderson (3) 101.79

16

H1

Gary Anderson (3) 106.91

10

G2

Michael Smith 98.18

6

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