Keegan Brown | |||||||
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Personal information | |||||||
Nickname | The Needle | ||||||
Born |
Durham, England |
5 November 1992 ||||||
Home town |
Newport, Isle of Wight England |
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Darts information | |||||||
Darts | 22 Grams Keegan Brown Contender | ||||||
Laterality | Right Handed | ||||||
Walk-on music | Blitzkrieg Bop by The Ramones | ||||||
Organisation (see split in darts) | |||||||
PDC | 2011– | ||||||
Current world ranking | 44 | ||||||
PDC premier events - best performances | |||||||
World Ch'ship | Last 32: 2015 | ||||||
World Matchplay | Last 16: 2015 | ||||||
World Grand Prix | Last 32: 2015 | ||||||
Grand Slam | Quarter Final: 2014 | ||||||
UK Open | Last 64: 2015 | ||||||
Players Ch'ship Finals | Last 64: 2016 | ||||||
Other tournament wins | |||||||
Players Championships
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Other achievements | |||||||
2014 PDC Young Player of the Year 2015 Breaks into the top 64 on the PDC Order of Merit for the first time |
Players Championships
2014 PDC Young Player of the Year
Keegan Brown (born 5 November 1992) is an English darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation events. He is the 2014 PDC World Youth champion and is mentored by Australian player Simon Whitlock.
Brown began playing darts at the age of nine and was playing in men's county league games for the Isle of Wight at the age of 13. He qualified for the 2011 PDC Under-21 World Championship but lost to Michael van Gerwen 4–2 in the last 64.
In January 2012, Brown entered the Professional Darts Corporation's Q-School event in an attempt to earn a two-year tour card. He achieved this by finishing seventh on the Order of Merit after the four days of play, comfortably inside the top 24 who won their places. He mainly concentrated his 2012 season around Youth Tour tournaments, winning the 14th event in September. However, he also posted some impressive results out of the handful of main tour events he did play, most notably in the fifth and sixth Players Championships. In the former he lost to Justin Pipe 6–2 in the last 16 and in the latter he defeated the likes of James Wade, Andy Hamilton and Terry Jenkins, before losing in the semi-finals 6–1 to Dave Chisnall.
Brown entered 2013 ranked world number 86. He lost 5–3 to Joey Palfreyman in the second round of the UK Open having beaten Keith Rooney and Shaun Griffiths in prior rounds. Brown played a combination of Challenge Tour and ProTour events during the year with his deepest run on the main tour coming at the ninth Players Championship in October, which was highlighted by a second round 6–1 victory over Phil Taylor, before he was beaten 6–2 in last 16 by Mark Dudbridge.