Gary Anderson

Gary Anderson, known as the Flying Scotsman, is a Scottish darts player and a two-time PDC world champion. Born in Edinburgh on 22 December 1970 and based in Burnham-on-Sea, he was 14th on the PDC Order of Merit when the rankings were last published on 2 November 2026, with £566,750 in ranking prize money over the two-year period the list covers. The PDC credits him with 54 senior titles, a total it compiles across all of its senior competitions. Before switching to the PDC after the 2009 BDO World Championship, he won four BDO major titles.

He won the Premier League in 2011, beating Adrian Lewis 10-4 in the final, and won it again in 2015. He became world champion in the 2015 final by beating Phil Taylor 7-6 in sets and retained the title a year later with a 7-5 win over Lewis. In 2018 he won the UK Open, the World Matchplay, where he beat Mensur Suljovic 21-19 in the final, and the Champions League of Darts. He was part of the Scotland team that won the 2019 World Cup of Darts with Peter Wright, and in 2025 he won the European Darts Grand Prix with an 8-0 win over Andrew Gilding.

At the 2026 World Championship he beat Michael van Gerwen 4-1 in the fourth round and Justin Hood 5-2 in the quarter-finals before losing 6-3 to Gian van Veen in the semi-finals. In August he reached the final of the Hungarian Darts Trophy, beating Stephen Bunting, Van Veen and Nathan Aspinall, and lost 8-2 to Ross Smith. At the World Grand Prix he beat Damon Heta 2-1 in sets and lost 3-1 to Niels Zonneveld in the second round. The PDC records ten nine-dart finishes for him across all of its events. He throws 23-gram Unicorn darts and walks on to "Jump Around" by House of Pain.