Darts Career
He made his PDC debut at the 2004 UK Open and his World Championship debut came in 2005 when he lost to Gerry Convery. He reached the semi-finals of the 2005 Las Vegas Desert Classic where he was beaten by Phil Taylor. He suffered a broken collarbone shortly after the event but returned for the 2005 World Grand Prix, losing in the second round to Colin Lloyd.
His second attempt in the World Championship in 2006 ended in a second round defeat to Kevin Painter, and another second round defeat came in the 2007 World Championships to Colin Osborne. This was followed by a first round exit in the 2008 World Championship, losing to qualifier Jamie Caven.
Newton won the ITV Wildcard Qualifier for the 2008 Grand Slam of Darts, beating Colin McGarry in the final. He was drawn into Group F with Terry Jenkins, Colin Lloyd and American Darin Young where Newton defeated Lloyd and Young in his first two games to stand a great chance of qualifying for the knockout stages. However, Newton would go on to lose to Jenkins 0–5 and Young beat Lloyd to pip him to second place and knock Newton out.
Newton entered the 2009 PDC World Championship as the number 31 seed and defeated Denmark's Per Laursen in the first round, before falling to Raymond van Barneveld in round two. After the tournament, he fell outside the top 32 on the PDC Order of Merit, eventually dropping as low as 36th. Newton won the WDF-ranked Las Vegas Open on 25 January 2009.
Newton made the second round of the 2010 World Championship after defeating Jarkko Komula in the first round 3–0. However, he came up against an in-form Adrian Lewis in the second round, falling to a 2–4 defeat. On the weekend of 7/8 November 2010, Newton won two Players Championship tournaments in the same weekend, only the fifth player to do so. This followed qualifying for the Grand Slam of Darts on the evening of 6 November. As a result of his double win, Newton broke into the top 16 in the Order of Merit for the first time in his career. At the Grand Slam, he was knocked out in the group stage after defeating Michael van Gerwen and losing to Ted Hankey and Phil Taylor.
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