Luke Woodhouse

Luke Woodhouse, known as Woody, is an English darts player from Bewdley. Born on 13 October 1988, he was 17th on the PDC Order of Merit when the rankings were last published on 2 November 2026, with £509,000 in ranking prize money over the two-year period the list covers. The PDC credits him with two senior titles, both won on the ProTour in 2026, and he took up the game in 2013.

Woodhouse reached his first PDC ranking final at Players Championship 14 in 2023, losing 8-2 to Damon Heta. At the 2024 European Championship he beat Dirk van Duijvenbode 10-4 in the quarter-finals before an 11-5 semi-final defeat to Ritchie Edhouse. He lost two ranking finals in 2025, 8-3 to Stephen Bunting at the Swiss Darts Trophy and 8-5 to Wessel Nijman at Players Championship 34. His first ranking title came at Players Championship 18 in May 2026, where he beat Andrew Gilding 8-4, and later that month he won the Baltic Sea Darts Open, beating Ryan Joyce 8-4 in the final for his first European Tour title. He was also runner-up at Players Championships 13 and 24 in 2026.

At the 2026 World Grand Prix he beat Luke Littler 2-1 in sets in the first round before losing 3-0 to Nathan Aspinall. He reached the quarter-finals of the Dutch Darts Championship in October, losing 6-2 to Danny Noppert, and at the European Championship he beat Van Duijvenbode 6-3 and Gian van Veen 10-6 before a 10-6 quarter-final defeat to Ross Smith. The PDC records six nine-dart finishes for him across all of its events, five of them in senior competition. He throws 22-gram Harrows darts and walks on to "C'est la Vie" by Stereophonics.