Daryl Gurney

Daryl Gurney, known as Superchin, is a Northern Irish darts player from County Tyrone and a former PDC major champion. Born in Derry on 22 March 1986, he was 30th on the PDC Order of Merit when the rankings were last published on 2 November 2026, with £288,500 in ranking prize money over the two-year period the list covers. The PDC credits him with six senior titles, including the 2017 World Grand Prix, the 2018 Players Championship Finals and the 2025 World Cup of Darts.

Gurney reached the quarter-finals of the 2017 PDC World Championship, losing 5-1 to Michael van Gerwen. Later in 2017 he won his first ranking title at Players Championship 7, beating Kim Huybrechts 6-3, and then the World Grand Prix, where he beat Simon Whitlock 5-4 in sets in the final. He won the 2018 Players Championship Finals with an 11-9 win over Van Gerwen in the final, and in 2019 added the German Darts Championship on the European Tour, beating Ricky Evans 8-6, and Players Championship 25, beating Nathan Aspinall 8-5. He reached a second World Championship quarter-final in 2021, losing 5-4 to Gerwyn Price. In 2025 he won the World Cup of Darts with Josh Rock for Northern Ireland, beating Wales 10-9 in the final in Frankfurt.

In September 2026 he beat Michael van Gerwen 6-5 in the first round of the World Series of Darts Finals before a 10-5 defeat to Ross Smith. At Players Championship 29 he beat Ryan Meikle and Joe Hunt before losing 6-4 to Nathan Aspinall, and he lost his opening matches at Players Championship 30, 6-4 to Tyler Thorpe, and at the Dutch Darts Championship, 6-4 to Sebastian Bialecki. The PDC records two nine-dart finishes for him across all of its events. He throws 23-gram Winmau darts and walks on to "Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond.