Jim Watkins (darts player)

James "Jim" Watkins (born September 25, 1954) is a retired American professional darts player, who played in Professional Darts Corporation events.

Jim Watkins
Personal information
Full nameJames Watkins
Born (1954-09-25) September 25, 1954[1]
United States
Home townSchuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania
United States
Darts information
Playing darts since1974
Darts21g Voks Signature
LateralityRight-handed
Organisation (see split in darts)
PDC1993–2006
PDC premier events – best performances
World Ch'shipLast 24 Group: 1994, 1995
World MatchplayQuarter-Finals: 1994
US Open/WSoDLast 32: 2006
Other tournament wins
Syracuse Open2003

Career

Watkins was brought in to make up the numbers in the inaugural 1994 WDC World Darts Championship, and lost to Phil Taylor and Jamie Harvey. He also played the following year, losing both his first round matches.

He reached the quarter-finals in the inaugural World Matchplay in 1994, beating Steve Brown and Keith Deller, before losing to Rod Harrington.

World Championship performances

PDC

gollark: "oh yes, we force you to have a physical device for storing something like 100 bytes of data for no reason, so instead of just DOING IT IN SOFTWARE the obvious answer is to solder in a special physical device"
gollark: eSIM cards are a horrible workaround.
gollark: SIM cards are just an awful design generally.
gollark: If I let you ask yes/no questions you would be able to do it in 9 questions. No.
gollark: I'll give you a hint: the name of it contains the letter "a".

References

Player profile on Jim Watkins from Dartsdatabase

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