Almost exactly a year ago, darts professional Jonny Clayton, who also worked full-time, made an interesting remark.
Just quit your job as a plasterer to just play darts?
That is not yet conceivable.
“I have a young family and I want everything to be right before I make this decision.
I think I have to win a major before that decision is made. "
If you look at the darts year 2021, for the 47-year-old, the description “everything is right” is an understatement.
Clayton has successively won the Masters, the Premier League, the World Grand Prix and, late on Sunday evening, the World Series final.
The associated prize money: 70,000 euros, 295,000 euros, 130,000 euros and now after the 11: 6 victory in the final against Belgian Dimitri van den Bergh: a little more than 80,000 euros.
“I feel absolutely brilliant, my confidence is as high as heaven right now.
I'm a very happy man, ”said Clayton after the title coup in Amsterdam.
The list of TV tournament victories this year should also make him very happy.
His compatriot and world champion Gerwyn Price has one, Michael van Gerwen from the Netherlands has none -
and plasterer Clayton four.