Luke Humphries on brink of darts history as eyewatering prize money total screams into view
Superstar Luke Humphries is set to become darts’ first-ever £2million man.
But the world No.1 really has his eyes set on the perfect ten. Humphries’ brilliant triumph at the Winmau World Masters was a staggering seventh major title success in just the past 15 months.
Cool Hand is clear at the top of the PDC Order of Merit rankings with the £100,000 winners cheque from MK pushing him beyond £1.9 million secured over the past two years. Humphries now has the chance to be the first in the rankings system to hit the £2m mark and can get there at the upcoming UK Open.
But it’s trophies and not cash that drives him as he said: “It obviously would be really nice to do that. It’s not like a goal that you’re looking at and thinking I need to do that. The prize money in darts is just going to go up and up over the next few years, I think everyone knows that. It’s probably going to be a common thing, so someone is going to reach the £2 million mark whether I do it or not, but I’d like to be the first one to do it.”
Humphries sits just three behind third-placed James Wade in the all-time list of darts TV major ranking title wins and that's the clearer target in his mind.
He said: “People forget it’s two out of three majors I’ve won now, so, you do get the little bit of people where they kind of think that when you have a couple of bad performances that you’re going to fall down and that’s it, you’re defending so much, you’re going to collapse. But like I said a couple of days ago, I’m just here to enjoy myself, win as much as I can and there’s another one ticked off.
“To be three away from James, what a legend he is. To be close to him. I was nothing and now I’ve got seven. When you put it into perspective, when you can be close to