1992 BDO World Darts Championship

Embassy World Darts Championship
Tournament information
Dates3–11 January 1992
VenueLakeside Country Club
LocationFrimley Green, Surrey
CountryEngland
Organisation(s)BDO
FormatSets
Final – best of 11
Prize fund£119,500
Winner's share£28,000
High checkout170 Australia Keith Sullivan
Champion(s)
England Phil Taylor[1]
«1991 1993»

The 1992 Embassy World Darts Championship was held from 3–11 January 1992 at the Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green, Surrey.

With Eric Bristow and defending champion Dennis Priestley both going out in round two, the way was paved for the top two seeds, Phil Taylor and Mike Gregory, to make it to the final – notably, the first final since the inauguration of the World Championship in 1978 that featured neither Bristow nor John Lowe.

In a titanic affair, full of big scores and high checkouts, it went to the final set and a tiebreak, where Gregory missed two chances each at double 8, double top and double 10 for the title. It also made Gregory the first player to miss darts at double to win a world championship and eventually lose; none would match this until Mark McGeeney in 2018.

Taylor took full advantage and sent the match to a sudden-death leg, which he won to take his second World title. Taylor's match-winning average of 97.58 remained a record for a BDO world championship final until the tournament's demise in 2020.

  1. ^ Staff (20 July 2002), "History of Embassy Darts", BBC Sports (online), BBC News, retrieved 23 February 2011