2017 BDO World Darts Championship
| Lakeside World Darts Championship | |||
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| Tournament information | |||
| Dates | 7–15 January 2017 | ||
| Venue | Lakeside Country Club | ||
| Location | Frimley Green, Surrey | ||
| Country | England, United Kingdom | ||
| Organisation(s) | BDO | ||
| Format | Sets | ||
| Prize fund | £339,000 (total) | ||
| Winners share | £100,000 (men) £12,000 (women) £5,000 (youth) |
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| High checkout |
170  Darryl Fitton (quarter finals), Glen Durrant (semi finals) |
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| Champion(s) | |||
Glen Durrant (men) Lisa Ashton (women) Justin van Tergouw (youth) |
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The 2017 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship was the 40th World Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation, and the 32nd staging at the Lakeside Country Club at Frimley Green.
The cutoff for qualification through the BDO Invitational Tables was on 30 September 2016. Additional qualifiers were determined in playoffs held on 30 November 2016.
Top 16 (Seeded)
17–24 in BDO Rankings (First Round)
25–26 in BDO Rankings (Preliminary Round)
2016 Finalist not in top 26 (Preliminary Round)
Regional Table Qualifiers (Preliminary Round)
Playoff Qualifiers (Preliminary Round)
Top 8 (Seeded)
9–14 in BDO Rankings
Playoff Qualifiers
All matches are the first to 3 sets.
For the third consecutive year, a youth final was played on the Lakeside stage during the Championships. In November 2016, the Youth tournament was played down to the final two. The final took place on 12 January, and was contested between 14 year old Nathan Girvan from Scotland and 16 year old Justin van Tergouw from the Netherlands. The format was first to three sets.
Justin van Tergouw was crowned champion, after only dropping one leg and recording a 3–0 victory, whilst throwing a three dart average of 88.20.
Starting from this year's World Championship Channel 4 signed a 2-year deal to broadcast both the men's and women's World Championship. Channel 4 showed afternoon games and the first semi final. BT Sport showed the evening games and the second semi final. The final was shown on both channels.
Outside of the United Kingdom, live coverage of all matches was provided by YouTube on the BDO's own channel.
It was announced in December 2016 that Rob Walker would present Channel 4's coverage of Darts. He was joined in the studio by analysts Deta Hedman and Paul Nicholson. Bobby George also featured in Channel 4's coverage, however unlike the BBC where he was their main pundit he instead did 'special features'. Reporters for the tournament were Seema Jaswal and Danny Crates. In a similar arrangement that the BBC had with BT Sport, they shared commentary teams. This was led by John Rawling who was joined alongside Vassos Alexander and Jim Proudfoot in the commentary booth.
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