‘I wish I hadn’t been told’ – Luke Humphries desperate to achieve rarely-seen feat with £30k GOLD prize on the line

LUKE HUMPHRIES wants to beryllium the Man with the Golden Darts by the clip the Premier League is over.

Tournament sponsors BetMGM volition reward immoderate subordinate who hits a nine-darter during the 17-week Prem Road Show with a custom-made acceptable of coagulated golden darts.

The 18ct prize volition beryllium worthy £30,000 and volition honour anyone who achieves perfection successful the invitational event.

Humphries – who turned 30 past Tuesday – was connected the receiving extremity of a cleanable limb erstwhile helium lost the 2024 Premier League final to Luke Littler astatine London’s O2 Arena.

That was the 16th clip the feat had been accomplished successful the tournament’s 21-year history.

Cool Hand Luke said: “I privation I hadn’t been told astir that – arsenic I astir apt won’t deed 1 now!

“To person £30,000 worthy of gold. Wow. It makes you admit however fortunate you are to play darts these days.

“Big businesses and large companies are sponsoring these events. BetMGM person been a massive, monolithic bonus for america arsenic a sponsor.

“Little incentives similar that are precise nice. For maine it’s not astir the wealth oregon what they are worth.

“I privation to triumph those darts for the information it’d beryllium bully to person them successful my house. I’d alternatively person that than £30,000 successful cash.”

Humphries received a tiny trophy for winning the opening nighttime successful Belfast past week.

And helium heads to Prem nighttime 2 successful Glasgow connected an eight-match winning streak, fixed helium was ascendant astatine the World Masters successful Milton Keynes.

The Prem is without a Scottish thrower for the archetypal clip since 2010 arsenic some Peter Wright and Gary Anderson are not successful contention anymore.

Top English stars similar Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis had their issues erstwhile they went implicit the borderline to Scotland and received hostile Premier League receptions.

But the World No1 – who opens up against Chris Dobey astatine the OVO Hydro – said: “I truly similar the Scottish people.

“They are ever up for a laugh. They are a large craic. Always make a large atmosphere. I’m looking guardant to playing determination adjacent week.

“It’s a shame determination are nary Scots successful the Premier League. There are truthful galore large Scots implicit the past 10 years who person played successful it. Unfortunately the modular has not been determination from them.”