The Australian Darts Open is a darts tournament held at Moama Bowling Club in
Moama
Moama ( or ) is a town in the Murray region of southern New South Wales, Australia, in the Murray River Council local government area. The town is directly across the Murray River from the larger town of Echuca in the neighbouring state of Vic ...
,
Australia
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. First edition of the tournament took place in 2019. The next edition of this tournament took place in 2022 after an interruption caused by
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
.
World Darts Federation
The World Darts Federation (WDF) is a sport governing body and (along with the PDC) a tournament organiser for the game of darts
Darts is a competitive sport in which two or more players bare-handedly throw small projectile point, sharp-poin ...
announced that the Australian Darts Open has been awarded Platinum ranking status, with a total prize fund of A$80,000, set to be one of the biggest
WDF events in 2022.
Tournament has been open to players worldwide, with open qualifiers for this staged event across
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...
. The stage format adopted for this tournament had been used before at the
Finder Darts Masters
The Finder Darts Masters was a darts tournament held in Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, sanctioned by the British Darts Organisation and the World Darts Federation, running intermittently under several different names from 1995 to 2018.
The tourname ...
. First winners of the tournament were
Damon Heta
Damon Heta (born 10 August 1987) is an Australian professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where he is currently ranked world number ten; he reached a peak ranking of world number seven in 2025. A ...
and
Lisa Ashton
Lisa Ashton (born 27 August 1970) is an English professional darts player who competes in World Darts Federation (WDF) and Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Nicknamed "The Lancashire Rose", Ashton formerly competed in British Darts O ...
.
Results
Men's
Women's
References
{{BDO & WDF Tournaments
Sports competitions in Australia
Darts tournaments
Recurring sporting events established in 2019
Darts in Australia