Brian Woods (born 9 November 1966) is a former English professional

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player. He used the nickname Pecker for his matches.

Career

Woods has competed on the BDO/ WDF circuit for several years. He won the National Singles title 2003 and the Isle of Man Open title in 2005. He has also reached the semi-finals of the English Open in 2003, the Welsh Masters in 2007 and the British Open in 2007. He has also made it to the quarter-finals of the Scottish Open in 2005 and the televised

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in 2005 and 2006. He made his World Championship debut in 2006, but was drawn against #1 seed Mervyn King and lost 0–3. The following year, he also went out in the first round to Niels de Ruiter 0–3. Woods then produced his best run of his career so far at the 2008 World Championship beating Paul Hanvidge,

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and

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, the number three seed, before losing 3–6 to

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in the semi-finals. He has continued his good form from Lakeside in 2008 by gain ranking points in most of the events he has entered and won the Pontins May Day Festival Singles Title, the mixed Doubles Title, with doubles partner and English International Trisha Wright, IDPA White Rose Classic, The Peterhead Open and the Elgin Open. In the 2009 BDO World Championship Woods was beaten in first round by the eventual World Champion,

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, having claimed Hankey "would be lucky to get nil!". Woods returned to Lakeside for the 2010 BDO World Championship, having won one of four qualifying places in the Inter-Playoffs in

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. He unexpectedly won his first round match against

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, before being defeated by

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in the sudden death leg, in a match considered by some to be one of the best in recent memory. At the

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, Woods, the number 11 seed, was beaten 3–0 in the first round to

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. He has also twice competed in the Grand Slam of Darts. Woods also took part in the UK Open in Bolton, 2011 and went out in the first round, losing 4–1 to Mark Hylton.

World Championship results

BDO

* 2006: First round (lost to Mervyn King 0–3) * 2007: First round (lost to Niels de Ruiter 0–3) * 2008: Semi-final (lost to

3–6) * 2009: First round (lost to

0–3) * 2010: Second round (lost to

3–4) * 2011: First round (lost to

0–3)

Performance timeline

External links

Official WebsiteWoods darts database
Lakeside World Darts Championship brochure 2006 {{DEFAULTSORT:Woods, Brian English darts players 1966 births Living people British Darts Organisation players Professional Darts Corporation former tour card holders