Grand Slam of Darts | |||
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Tournament information | |||
Dates | 7–15 November 2015 | ||
Venue | Civic Hall | ||
Location | Wolverhampton | ||
Country | England | ||
Organisation(s) | PDC | ||
Format | Legs | ||
Prize fund | £400,000 | ||
Winners share | £100,000 | ||
Nine dart finish | Dave Chisnall | ||
High checkout |
170 Robbie Green Dave Chisnall Michael van Gerwen |
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Champion(s) | |||
Michael van Gerwen | |||
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The 2015 Grand Slam of Darts, also known as the Singha Beer Grand Slam of Darts for sponsorship purposes, was the ninth staging of the tournament, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The event took take place from 7–15 November 2015 at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall.
Phil Taylor was the defending champion, having won his sixth Grand Slam title by defeating Dave Chisnall 16–13 in the 2014 final.
The 2015 edition saw several changes in the qualification criteria due to the Grand Slam of Darts being a PDC Order of Merit ranking tournament for the first time. As a result of this, at most 20 places were filled by invitations and the remaining 12 places were open for qualification.
The tournament was won by Michael van Gerwen, who had a tournament average over 100, and with this title won every current PDC major tournament at least once.
Players in italics had already qualified for the event. At most 16 players could qualify through this method, where the position in the list depicts the priority of the qualification.
Note: Players in italics had already qualified for the tournament.
Gary Anderson
Phil Taylor
Michael van Gerwen
Robert Thornton
Keegan Brown
Adrian Lewis
Dave Chisnall
James Wade
Peter Wright
Raymond van Barneveld
Rowby-John Rodriguez