MILTON KEYNES — Canadian Jim (The Gentleman) Long won his Professional Darts Corporation Tour Card at PDC Qualifying School on Sunday.
MILTON KEYNES — Canadian Jim Long won his Professional Darts Corporation Tour Card at PDC Qualifying School on Sunday.
More than 800 players competed for the chance to secure two-year PDC Tour Cards at Q-Schools in England and Kalkar, Germany. Fellow Canadian David Cameron also advanced to the final stage of Q-School but missed out in a Tour card. John Part, a former three-time world champion, also took part. In 2019, he combined with Dawson Murschell of Medicine Hat, Alta., to make the quarterfinals of the World Cup of Darts in Germany. He scored a major upset at the 2023 bet365 U.S. Darts Masters at The Theater at Madison Square Garden, defeating world champion Michael Smith of England before losing to Michael van Gerwen of the Netherlands in the quarterfinals.
Long didn't get to go to many tournaments, however. He always worked Saturdays at the GM plant in Ingersoll where he spent 18 years as a team leader on the assembly line making the Chevrolet Equinox before working in the paint shop.
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