Key Highlights
- Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. History does not merely knock in 2026 – it kicks the door clean off its hinges.
- Somewhere in the not too distant future, one darting mortal will rise from the tungsten trenches and be crowned the 2026 PDC Paddy Power World Champion.
- In that moment, they will not simply win a tournament; they will be embalmed in sporting eternity.
- Their name will be chiselled into the same granite slab as the immortals – Taylor, Barney, Van Gerwen – a permanent inscription etched on the sacred Sid Waddell trophy.
- And as if that wasn’t enough, they will also be handed the richest bounty the sport has ever dared to offer.
