Peter Locke is a Welsh former

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player.

Darts career

Locke made his World Championship debut in the

1983 BDO World Darts Championship The 1983 Embassy World Darts Championship was staged at Jollees Cabaret Club in Stoke-on-Trent from 1–8 January 1983. The tournament saw one of the World Darts Championship's biggest upsets, when Keith Deller defeated Eric Bristow, by 6 sets ...

, losing in the first round to Terry O'Dea. A year later in the 1984 BDO World Darts Championship, he reached the quarter-finals, defeating

Russell Stewart Russell "Rusty" Stewart (born 9 October 1960) is an Australian former professional darts player. He used the nickname Rusty for his matches. Playing career Stewart was one of the most successful Australian darts players of the 1980s, Austral ...

in the first round and then Malcolm Davies in the second round before losing to the eventual champion

Eric Bristow Eric John Bristow (25 April 1957 – 5 April 2018), nicknamed "the Crafty Cockney", was an English professional darts player and one of the most recognisable and successful players of the 1980s. He was ranked World No. 1 by the World Darts Fed ...

in a 5-0 whitewash. In the

1985 BDO World Darts Championship The 1985 Embassy World Darts Championship was the 8th World Professional Championships. The tournament was held between 5 and 12 January. It was the seventh and final time that the tournament was held at the Jollees Cabaret Club in Stoke-on-Tre ...

, he lost in the first round to Fred McMullan. Locke then reached the final of the 1985 British Open, losing to John Cosnett. In the

1986 BDO World Darts Championship The 1986 Embassy World Darts Championship was held between 4–11 January 1986. For the first time, the tournament was held at the Lakeside Leisure Complex, Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green, Surrey, having been held at Jollees Cabaret ...

, Locke succeeded in reaching the quarter-final for the second time by defeating

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in the first round and then

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player

Paul Lim Paul Lim Leong Hwa (born 25 January 1954) is a Singaporean professional darts player. Nicknamed "the Singapore Slinger", Lim was the first player to hit a perfect nine-dart finish during the Embassy World Darts Championship, which he achiev ...

in the second round before losing again to Bristow in another whitewash with Bristow again going on to win his third successive world championship. Locke made one more appearance in the world championships in 1987, losing in the first round Bob Anderson. Peter Locke/

also lost in the 1986 MFI world pairs final. Then went on to become MFI world pairs champions a year later in 1987 ocke/Bristowwho then beat John Lowe and Tony Payne for the 1987 title. Locke also played in the

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four times, and lost in the first round each time: losing in 1984 to

Steve Brennan Stephen Edward Brennan (born 2 February 1951) is a Northern Irish former professional darts player who competed in the 1980s. He was a civil engineer from Leiston and began playing county darts for Suffolk in 1979–1980. He was eligible to p ...

, in 1986 to Stewart, in 1991 to Donnie MacLean, and in 1992 to Keith Sullivan. Locke, having lost to Norman Fletcher in the 2006 Budweiser UK Open. Locke quit the PDC in 2006.

World Championship results

BDO

* 1983: 1st round (lost to Terry O'Dea 0–2) * 1984: Quarter-finals (lost to

0–5) * 1985: 1st round (lost to Fred McMullan 0–2) * 1986: Quarter-finals (lost to

0–4) * 1987: 1st round (lost to Bob Anderson 0–3)

External links

Profile and stats on Darts Database
Living people Welsh darts players British Darts Organisation players Professional Darts Corporation associate players Sportspeople from Merthyr Tydfil 1956 births {{UK-darts-bio-stub