{"id":15736,"date":"2024-01-11T16:42:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T21:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/pdc-tour-cards-steve-lennon-and-martijn-dragt-become-first-players-to-win-tour-places-at-qualifying-schools-darts-news\/11\/01\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-01-11T16:42:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T21:42:18","slug":"pdc-tour-cards-steve-lennon-and-martijn-dragt-become-first-players-to-win-tour-places-at-qualifying-schools-darts-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/pdc-tour-cards-steve-lennon-and-martijn-dragt-become-first-players-to-win-tour-places-at-qualifying-schools-darts-news\/11\/01\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"PDC Tour Cards: Steve Lennon and Martijn Dragt become first players to win tour places at Qualifying Schools | Darts News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Ireland&#8217;s Steve Lennon and the Netherlands&#8217; Martijn Dragt became the first players to win PDC Tour Cards at the 2024 Qualifying Schools in Milton Keynes on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Former World Cup of Darts runner-up Lennon narrowly lost his Tour Card following the 2023\/24 World Darts Championship but won it back with a 101.42 average in a 6-2 win over Leighton Bennett.<\/p>\n<p>The Irishman then saw off Shaun Wilkinson and Brett Claydon to reach the last 16 before coming up against Matthew Dennant and survived seven match darts to reach the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Lennon overcame Justin Hood in the quarter-finals and went on to defeat 27-year-old George Killington 6-2 in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old then came back from 4-3 down to beat Borland 6-4 and reclaimed his place on the professional circuit.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 35-year-old Dragt defeated former Tour Card Holders Jesus Noguera, Rusty-Jake Rodriguez and Mario Vandenbogaerde on his way to the final.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ui-media-caption\">\n        <span class=\"u-hide-visually\">Image:<\/span><br \/>\n        <span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\">UK Q School Order of Merit. Photo credit: PDC<br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n      <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chris Landman took a 5-2 lead in the all-Ditch final before Dragt won four successive legs to win his first Tour Card.<\/p>\n<p>Each daily winner in the UK and Germany competitions wins an automatic place on the 2024-25 tour, while cards are also available (13 in Europe and 10 in the UK) through the respective orders of merit.<\/p>\n<p>The final stage of PDC Q Schools features 128 players competing for a total of 31 tour cards for 2024-25 across the qualifying events in the UK and Germany.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/darts\/news\/12040\/13046432\/pdc-tour-cards-steve-lennon-and-martijn-dragt-become-first-players-to-win-tour-places-at-qualifying-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland&rsquo;s Steve Lennon and the Netherlands&rsquo; Martijn Dragt became the first players to win PDC Tour Cards at the 2024 Qualifying Schools<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/pdc-tour-cards-steve-lennon-and-martijn-dragt-become-first-players-to-win-tour-places-at-qualifying-schools-darts-news\/11\/01\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[2791,702,3987,3985,3986,33,3501,3988,405,42,3989,1438,212,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15738,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736\/revisions\/15738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}