Phil Taylor (darts Player) - Awards and Records

Awards and Records

Taylor was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2001 New Year honours, but it was retracted and annulled in May 2002 following a conviction for indecent assault. The incident happened after a 1999 exhibition match in Scotland when two women, aged 23 and 25, accompanied Taylor back to his van after the event. They later accused him of sexual assault. Taylor denied the charges but he was found guilty in 2001 and fined £2,000.

Taylor holds records for high scoring in darts. His three-dart average per match records are the highest in the history of the game. No player has a winning head-to-head record against him. Taylor has a 79% win rate against Raymond van Barneveld, the player with the most wins against him. Taylor is the first darts player to win more than £1 million in prize money.

On 9 January 2007 Taylor won the 2006 PDC Player of the Year award at the inaugural PDC Awards Dinner held at the Dorchester Hotel in London's Park Lane. He was one of ten nominees for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in 2006; the award went to Zara Phillips. Taylor was voted the 2007 Fans' Player of the Year following a vote conducted on the website Planet Darts. He received the award at the annual PDC Awards Dinner in January 2008. After his fifteenth world championship victory, Taylor was made an inaugural inductee to the Stoke-on-Trent Sporting Hall of Fame on 7 January 2010. Awards excluding Hall Of Fame are handed out the following January so add a year for the year received.

• PDC Player of the Year: 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
• PDC Fans' Player of the Year: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
• Best PDC Pro Tour Player/Floor Player: 2008, 2009
• PDPA Players' Player of the Year: 2007, 2008, 2009
• PDC Nine Dart Club: *2007, *2008, *2009, *2010, *2011, −2011 *Gold Pin Badge(Televised)/-Silver Pin Badge(Non Televised)
• BBC Sports Personality Of The Year (Runner Up): 2010
• PDC Hall Of Fame: 2011