Jonny Clayton

Jonny Clayton, known as The Ferret, is a Welsh darts player who won four PDC major titles in 2021. Born in Carmarthen on 4 October 1974 and based in Pontyberem, he was fifth on the PDC Order of Merit when the rankings were last published on 2 November 2026, with £726,000 in ranking prize money over the two-year period the list covers. The PDC credits him with 19 senior titles, a total it compiles across all of its senior competitions.

His first PDC ranking title came at Players Championship 22 in 2017, where he beat James Wilson 6-1 in the final. In 2021 he won the Masters, beating Mervyn King 11-8, the Premier League, beating Jose de Sousa 11-5, the World Series of Darts Finals, beating Dimitri Van den Bergh 11-6, and the World Grand Prix, beating Gerwyn Price 5-1 in sets. He has won the World Cup of Darts twice with Price for Wales, in 2020 and 2023.

At the 2026 World Championship he reached the quarter-finals for the second time and lost 5-2 to Ryan Searle. Back in the Premier League for the first time since 2023, he finished second in the league table and lost 10-9 to Luke Humphries in the semi-finals. He won the New Zealand Darts Masters in August, beating Price 8-4 in the final, and the Swiss Darts Trophy in October, beating Humphries 8-4 in the final. A week later he lost 6-1 to Damon Heta at the Dutch Darts Championship. At the European Championship he beat Niko Springer 6-3 and Josh Rock 10-8 before losing 10-1 to Martin Schindler in the quarter-finals. The PDC records three nine-dart finishes for him across all of its events. He throws 22-gram Red Dragon darts and walks on to "Johnny B. Goode" by Chuck Berry.