Royden Lam | |||||||||||
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Personal information | |||||||||||
Full name | Lam Ting Chi Royden | ||||||||||
Nickname | The Wolf | ||||||||||
Born |
Hong Kong |
8 September 1975 ||||||||||
Home town | Hong Kong Hong Kong |
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Darts information | |||||||||||
Playing darts since | 2003 | ||||||||||
Darts | 21 g Cosmo Darts | ||||||||||
Laterality | Right-handed | ||||||||||
Walk-on music | Gangnam Style by PSY | ||||||||||
Organisation (see split in darts) | |||||||||||
BDO | 2007–2013 | ||||||||||
PDC | 2013– | ||||||||||
PDC premier events - best performances | |||||||||||
World Ch'ship | Last 64: 2014 | ||||||||||
UK Open | Last 128: 2013, 2017 | ||||||||||
Other tournament wins | |||||||||||
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Royden Lam (Chinese:林鼎智; born 8 September 1975) is a darts player from Hong Kong.
Royden Lam is best known as a soft tip darts player but also plays steel tip darts. In 2009 he won the Hong Kong Open by beating Liu Cheng from China in the final. In 2010, he lost in the final of the Japan Open to Kyle Anderson and in the quarter-finals of the Asia Pacific Cup to Morihiro Hashimoto. In 2011, he almost managed to qualify for the PDC World Championship, but was defeated by Scott MacKenzie 4–3 in the final of the Chinese qualifier.
In 2013, Lam registered for PDC Qualifying School and earned a Tour Card on the final day. However, he only played in three events during the year which included a 5–3 first round loss against Wayne Jones in the UK Open. Lam qualified for the 2014 World Championship by whitewashing Deng Yin 5–0 in the final of the Chinese qualifier. He beat world number 65 Gino Vos 4–1 in the preliminary round, before losing by three sets to one against Wes Newton in the first round. Lam made his debut in the World Cup of Darts in June as he represented Hong Kong with Scott MacKenzie. They defeated Norway 5–2 in the first round to face Australia in the second round. Lam lost his singles match against Simon Whitlock, before MacKenzie saw off Paul Nicholson to mean a doubles match was required to settle the tie, which Hong Kong were whitewashed in 4–0.
In the 2015 World Cup, Lam and MacKenzie caused a couple of shocks. First they defeated Wales' Mark Webster and Jamie Lewis 5–3. Lam then beat Ireland's William O'Connor 4–1, but MacKenzie lost 4–3 to Connie Finnan meaning a doubles match was needed to settle the tie which Hong Kong won 4–3 to reach the quarter-finals. However, the Scottish number two seeds of Gary Anderson and Peter Wright proved a step too far as they won both their singles matches 4–2 to eliminate Hong Kong.