His career has since taken him from the ranks of very good amateurs, playing for The Young Farmers in the Thursday night Hants and Dorset League, under local legend Whistle Hayes and in the Dorset Superleague, before going all the way to the top in the BDO.įollowing his 2015 BDO win there have been flashes of brilliance, a spot consulting on a Hollywood film and struggles with form – before the collapse of the BDO championship forced Mitchell to look to the PDC. Mitchell, a beef farmer and freelance landscape gardener, has had quite the journey since he started playing darts aged 16 in the New Queen pub in Avon.
I’m just so pleased – today I’ve been in tears.” “They know me as ‘Scotty the tractor driver’ and I just keep trying to be me. This shouldn’t be happening to me… we’re more worried about who’s feeding the horses when they shouldn’t be, and it’s a 50-quid fine and all this!”
“I’m a farmer’s kid from a little village in the New Forest, man!” he joked, speaking with PDC Darts after beating Danny Baggish in the final.
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In an emotional interview last night (Wednesday) Mitchell said the win – which earns him a place on the high profile Professional Darts Corporation circuit and a chance to play legends such as Michael van Gerwen and current world number one Gerwyn Price – said it was a “massive” moment in his life. Scott Mitchell won the now-defunct BDO championship in 2015Ī TERRIFIC performance by Bransgore darts ace Scott Mitchell saw him storm through the field and win the final day of a qualifying school to earn a spot on the lucrative PDC tour.
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