Haupai Puha

Haupai Puha (born 12 February 1985 in Gisborne) is a New Zealand professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation events.

Haupai Puha
Personal information
NicknameHopes
Born (1985-02-12) 12 February 1985[1]
Gisborne, New Zealand
Home townWellington
New Zealand
Darts information
Playing darts since2017
Darts26g Bottelsen
LateralityRight-handed
Walk-on music"Hey Baby" by DJ Otzi
Organisation (see split in darts)
PDC2017–
Other tournament wins
Alan King Memorial 2018
DPA Australian Pro Tour New South Wales 2019 (x2)

Darts career

Puha qualified for 2 2018 World Series of Darts events in Australia and New Zealand as the number 2 ranked player in the DPNZ rankings. He would lose in the first round of both events to Kyle Anderson in Auckland and to Rob Cross in Melbourne. He made his first PDC major appearance at the 2019 World Cup of Darts in Hamburg together with Cody Harris. They beat Lithuania and South Africa to reach the quarter-finals, eventually losing to Japan.

Puha also qualified for all three World Series events in Australia and New Zealand in 2019. He lost to Raymond van Barneveld in the first round of both the 2019 Brisbane Darts Masters and the 2019 Melbourne Darts Masters, and to Gary Anderson in the first round of the 2019 New Zealand Darts Masters.

Puha credits his experience with golf in making the transition to darts.[2]

gollark: Lisp machines but they're safe rust machines.
gollark: 🐝 Github's Dependabot for spamming me with notifications about 189246187264182 npm package security vulnerabilities constantly.
gollark: It does make it easier to isolate.
gollark: I'm sure people can deal with the context-switching overhead mostly.
gollark: This seems cool. Microkernels should be a thing™.

References
  1. "Haupai Puha". Mastercaller.com. 12 February 1985. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  2. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/sport/2018/08/darts-fearless-haupai-puha-ready-to-face-world-s-best-at-auckland-masters.html


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