This whole idea started with a simple question:
If Beau Greaves can now play on the PDC Pro Tour… could any other player ,men or women, realistically maintain the level needed to survive there?
But once I started digging, the question became a lot bigger.
What about the Challenge Tour?
What about the Asian Tour, CDC (North America), DPNZ, Australia, South America?
How many players outside the main PDC system actually throw at a standard high enough to belong on the Pro Tour?
The truth is we only ever see the very top names from these regions on TV. Beneath them could be dozens of players who never get the chance due to:
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financial pressure
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travel costs
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lack of sponsorship
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work and family commitments
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or living thousands of miles from European darts
For non-Europeans, especially African or South American players, playing a full Pro Tour season is almost impossible without significant backing.
So,ignoring money, ignoring travel, ignoring logistics and looking only at ability, what standard does a player need to survive on the PDC Pro Tour for two years?
Looking at the Pro Tour Standard (Players Championship Events)
I analysed the median averages from Players Championship events over the last three seasons.
Why median? Because:
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mean averages get skewed by a handful of very low or very high outliers
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median gives a clearer 'middle of the pack' picture
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on a tour with 128 players, it’s the fairest gauge of what 'survival level' actually looks like
Here’s the median for each year:
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2025: 90.21
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2024: 90.30
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2023: 90.71
Take the mean of those medians and you get:
📌 A rough Pro Tour benchmark of ≈ 90.4 average
This doesn’t mean averages = everything. But for scoring consistency across a season, it’s the best indicator we have.
To “be Tour standard”, a player should realistically be able to hold 90+ in floor events over long periods, not just occasionally.
🌍 So… who outside the Pro Tour actually hits this level?
Using 2025 data from each major PDC-affiliated tour:
(❗Note: Beau Greaves is excluded because she’s the benchmark we’re comparing against.)
PDC Challenge Tour (2025)
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Beau Greaves — 91.5 (only player above the benchmark)
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Daniel Ayres — 90.3 (just below)
✔ Only 1 qualifier
PDC Women’s Series (2025)
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Top: Noa-Lynn van Leuven — 81.1
❌ No qualifiers
PDC Asian Tour (2025)
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Top: Seigo Asada — 87.7
❌ No qualifiers
DPNZ (New Zealand)
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Top: Jonny Tata — 86.01
❌ No qualifiers
Australian Tour (2025)
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Top: Brody Klinge — 86.5
❌ No qualifiers
CDC – North America (2025)
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Top: David Cameron — 85.1
❌ No qualifiers
South American Tour (2025)
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Top: Jesús Salate — 82.6
❌ No qualifiers
🧠 What surprised me most…
I expected at least a handful of Challenge Tour players to be above 90.
I expected the Asian Tour to have several around 92–94.
I thought North America might have one or two in the 90s as well.
But they didn't appear:
⭐ Only one player outside the Pro Tour averaged over 90+ in 2025: Beau Greaves.
This doesn’t mean the others aren’t capable.
Some could easily raise their game on the Pro Tour.
Some may never get the financial chance to try.
But as things stand, real Tour-ready consistency is rare.
Final Thoughts: Who Is Truly 'Tour Ready'?
This analysis isn’t about predicting potential, it’s about identifying the level needed to survive the grind of the Pro Tour.
Many players could:
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beat tour players
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have hot runs
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hit the odd 100+ average
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win qualifiers
But a season-long 90+ average?
That’s a different world — a world only a small percentage of global players can enter.
That’s what makes Beau Greaves’ numbers so extraordinary.
And it will be fascinating to see:
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how she adapts,
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whether any other players can join her in that >90 group,
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and which regions — if any — start to close the gap.
The door to the Pro Tour is wider than ever… but holding that standard once inside?
That’s still one of the hardest challenges in darts.
