The 2006 Budweiser UK Open was the fourth year of the UK Open darts tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. It was held at the Reebok Stadium, Bolton, between 9–11 June 2006.
| 2006 Budweiser UK Open | |||
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| Tournament information | |||
| Dates | 9–11 June 2006 | ||
| Venue | Reebok Stadium | ||
| Location | Bolton | ||
| Country |  England | ||
| Organisation(s) | PDC | ||
| Format | Legs | ||
| Prize fund | £124,000 | ||
| Winner's share | £30,000 | ||
| Champion(s) | |||
 Raymond van Barneveld | |||
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Phil Taylor was the defending champion but got knocked out at the quarter-final stage by Raymond van Barneveld. Van Barneveld went on to win the title, winning 13–7 against Barrie Bates in the final.
Format edit
Qualifying events were held at Greene King pubs across the UK – winners from each pub event progressed to one of four Regional Finals, to be staged in their relevant area. Players who reach the final eight in the Regional Finals will qualify for the televised stages of the UK Open in Bolton.
In addition there were eight UK Open Regional Finals for the "professional" players. All events were open to all darts players on payment of an entry fee – which means that players from both the PDC and BDO were eligible to enter. Players who enter through the Greene King Qualifying Round were not eligible to play in the regional qualifying events and vice versa.
The results of the eight qualifiers were then collated into an Order of Merit table (Winner £4000; Runner-up £2000; 3–4 £1000; 5–8 £500; 9–16 £250; 17–32 £100; 33–64 £50). The top 96 players plus ties in this Order of Merit join the 32 Greene King qualifiers at the televised stages in Bolton.
1st round
Players who were ranked between 65 and 96 in the UK Open Order of Merit join the 32 Greene King qualifiers in the first round of the UK Open.
2nd round
Players ranked 33 to 64 join the first round winners.
3rd round
Players ranked in the top 32 join the second round winners.
2005/2006 UK Open Regional Finals edit
25 September 2005 (Welsh) Mark Walsh 2–1 Phil Taylor [1]
23 October 2005 (Irish) Colin Lloyd 2–1 Andy Smith [2]
6 November 2005 (Scottish) Adrian Lewis 2–0 Colin Lloyd [3]
8 January 2006 (North East) Kevin Painter 2–0 Colin Lloyd [4]
12 February 2006 (South West) Mark Dudbridge 2–0 Dennis Priestly [5]
5 March 2006 (Southern) Chris Mason 2–1 Barrie Bates [6]
19 March 2006 (North West) Alan Tabern 2–1 Steve Maish [7]
9 April 2006 (Midlands) Raymond van Barneveld 2–0 Ronnie Baxter [8]
UK Open Qualifiers edit
Top 32 in UK Open Order of Merit (receiving byes into third round) edit
Colin Lloyd- Adrian Lewis
- Kevin Painter
- Mark Dudbridge
- Chris Mason
- Dennis Priestley
Raymond van Barneveld- Mark Walsh
- Alan Tabern
Barrie Bates- Ronnie Baxter
- Steve Maish
- Phil Taylor
- Andy Smith
- Andy Jenkins
- Alex Roy
- Colin Monk
- James Wade
- Terry Jenkins
- Peter Manley
- Denis Ovens
- Andy Hamilton
Tom Kirby- Alan Warriner
- Lionel Sams
- Richie Burnett
John Part- Matt Clark
- Wayne Mardle
- Owen Caffrey
- Wayne Jones
- Bob Anderson
Numbers 33–64 of UK Open of Merit (receiving byes into second round) edit
- Peter Allen
- Darren Latham
- Wes Newton
- Steve Beaton
- Ian Whillis
- Jimmy Mann
- Dave Askew
- Robbie Widdows
- Mick McGowan
John MaGowan- Robbie Green
- Colin Osborne
- Roland Scholten
- Keith Deller
- Jason Roberts
- Kevin Pearson
- Mark Robinson
Erik Clarys- Steve Hine
- Alan Reynolds
Jason Clark- Michael Barnard
- Simon Whatley
- Gary Welding
- Lee Palfreyman
- Andy Callaby
- Dennis Smith
- Matt Chapman
- Adrian Gray
- Vic Hubbard
- Mark Frost
- Henry O'Neill
Remaining numbers of UK Open of Merit (starting in first and preliminary round) edit
- Alan Green
- Bob Crawley
- Steve Coote
- Cliff Lazarenko
- Tony Smith
- Darren Williams
- Wayne Atwood
- Steve Johnson
- Rikki Blay
- Graeme Stoddart
- Paul Everson
- Shayne Burgess
- Darren Johnson
David Platt- Kevin Dowling
- Tom Wilson
- Sean Palfrey
- Dave Honey
- Paul Williams
- Dave Johnson
- Gary Noonan
- Andy Hayfield
- Jamie Harvey
- Yves Cottenge
- Alan Caves
- Norman Fletcher
- Simon Craven
- Dave Jowett
- Rocco Maes
- Jan van der Rassel
- Chris Allen
- Guy Christyn
- Eddie Lovely
- Kevin Spiolek
- Mark Thomson
- Darren Webster
- Steve Evans
- Shaun McDonald
Al Hedman
Greene King Qualifiers edit
- Stuart Pickles
- Nicky Turner
- Geoff Harkup
- Wayne Brown
- Pip Brown
- Ian McLean
- David Fairbrass
- Danny Pinhorne
- Chris Hill
- Johnny Haines
- Jess Archer
- Lee Rose
- Peter Locke
- Kevin Dalwood
- John Harris
- Peter Hall
- Peter Dillingham
- Mick Chambers
- Perry Regan
- Wayne Squirrell
- Coen Wiekamp
- Gary Miller
- Lee Topper
- Gary Barnett
- Tom Murphy
- Tom Allies
- Nigel Langton
- John Nesbitt
- Glenn Baxter
- James Dorenbos
- Ian Haines
- John Quantock
- Dave Whitcombe
Friday 9 June edit
Preliminary round, best of 11 legs edit
| Player | Score | Player |
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| Eddie Lovely |
3–6 | Norman Fletcher
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| Mark Thomson |
6–4 | Kevin Spiolek
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 Steve Evans |
3–6 | Jan van der Rassel
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| Simon Craven |
6–2 |  Guy Christyn
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| Dave Jowett |
6–4 | Darren Webster
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| John Quantock |
5–6 |  Shaun McDonald
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| Peter Locke |
6–3 | Dave Whitcombe
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| Cliff Lazarenko |
6–5 |  Al Hedman
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1st Round, best of 11 legs edit
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2nd Round, best of 15 legs edit
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- ^ Steve Hine received a bye in his match versus Eric Clarys.
Saturday 10 June edit
3rd Round, best of 15 legs edit
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4th Round, best of 21 legs edit
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Sunday 11 June edit
Last 16 to Final edit
| 5th Round Best of 21 legs | Quarter-finals Best of 21 legs | Semi-finals Best of 21 legs | Final Best of 25 legs | ||||||||||||||||
| Raymond van Barneveld 94.71
| 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bob Anderson 84.93
| 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Raymond van Barneveld 97.53
| 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Phil Taylor 97.05
| 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Phil Taylor 99.72
| 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Colin Lloyd 93.00
| 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Raymond van Barneveld 96.45
| 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
 John MaGowan 86.22
| 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| John MaGowan
| 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Adrian Lewis
| 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| John MaGowan
| 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Robbie Green
| 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Robbie Green
| 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Terry Jenkins
| 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Raymond van Barneveld 91.50
| 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Barrie Bates 82.98
| 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Barrie Bates
| 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Roland Scholten
| 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Barrie Bates
| 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alex Roy
| 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alex Roy
| 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ronnie Baxter
| 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Barrie Bates 82.80
| 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alan Tabern 85.17
| 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Denis Ovens
| 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alan Tabern
| 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alan Tabern
| 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Andy Callaby
| 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
 John Part
| 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Andy Callaby
| 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
Random draws were made after each round up to the quarter final stage. Draw bracket has been compiled retrospectively.
References edit
- ^ "UK Open Qualifier 1". Darts Database. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ^ "UK Open Qualifier 2". Darts Database. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ^ "UK Open Qualifier 3". Darts Database. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ^ "UK Open Qualifier 4". Darts Database. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ^ "UK Open Qualifier 5". Darts Database. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ^ "UK Open Qualifier 6". Darts Database. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ^ "UK Open Qualifier 7". Darts Database. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ^ "UK Open Qualifier 8". Darts Database. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ^ "2006 UK Open Qualifiers". PDC. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- ^ "Averages + Flag reference". Master Caller. Archived from the original on 18 January 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2015.