Phil Taylor

Who is Phil Taylor?

Philip Douglas 'Phil' Taylor is an English professional darts player, nicknamed The Power. He is widely regarded as the best darts player of all time, having won more than 200 professional tournaments, including 80 major titles and a record 16 World Championships. No darts player has a winning record in matches against him.

He has won the PDC Player of the Year award six times and has twice been nominated for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, in 2006 and 2010, finishing as runner-up in the latter. He was the first, and to date, the only person to hit two nine dart finishes in one match, in the 2010 Premier League Darts final against James Wade. He has hit a record nine televised nine-dart finishes and is ranked world number two in the PDC Order of Merit.

Taylor played in competitions organised by the British Darts Organisation until 1993. Amidst growing disenchantment with the BDO, he was among 16 top players who broke away to form their own organisation, the World Darts Council, now known as the Professional Darts Corporation.

He was given the nickname "The Power" by a Sky Sports production manager, Peter Judge. Judge told Taylor that he should have a nickname, and he was named "The Power" after Judge stepped on an empty CD case of Snap!'s "The Power".