4th Yorkshire Open goes to Turbo Trev

4th annual Yorkshire Open took place in Rotherham this week and it went to local PDC player Turbo Trevor Burkhill in a field of players from all over the north and midlands.Trevor won through his group in fine style with a 4-0 win over Jake Rhodes with legs of 18,15,16,12 before beating Owen Cubitt to go through.in the last 16 he would then face county star Martin Richards and both men hit a 12 dart leg and a 120 out shot aswell as a maximum but then trev rattled in a 16 and 2x15 to win 4-1 in legs.Next up was mark Gurran and turbo continued with the pressure with legs of 16,15,13,15 a maximum and a 121 out to go through 4-0 and then a 4-1 win over Bob Pinder 13,14,17,16 and a 111 out before setting up a final with Greg Beard and Trev would hit 18,17,17,18,12 to record a 5-0 win in the final.

Greg Beard with the family and Mark gurran and winner Trev burkhill



he was faultless all day but that saying the field was very good as Greg also on route to the final had a maximum in his opener and legs of 17,18,16,21 in a 4-0 win before beating Sie simmons 4-1 with legs of 17x2 and 18x2 with two maximums.greg then had a 14,15 and a 18 in a 4-0 win over Tom blagg and in arguably game of the day a 4-3 win over Scott bennet in the last 8 with all legs under 22 darts.Greg would then see off the most gutsy player of the day Lee Cushworth 4-3 again with all legs under 21 and make a well deserved final.Lee Cushworth had to battle all day long and is clearly showing the form from a couple of years ago winning all his group games 4-3 including a belter with Martin Richards with 20 been the highest leg.Lee hit 8x180s and 17 legs under 19 dart including 5 ton plus checkouts and recorded win over Pete Bramley,Tom Gurran,Martin Richards,Owen Cubitt,Jordan Matthews before losing out to Greg Beard in the last 4 but spare a though for young Tom Gurran who lost a last leg decider in all his 3 group game.Scott Bennet was the winner of group 1 and also recorded a 12 dart legin his 4-1 win over Paul Hampton who also made it to the knockout stage.Greg Beard and sie simmons was victorious in group 2with Jordan Matthews and Lester bowers making it through group 3.Martin Richards and Lee Cushworth was the victores of group 4 with group 5 going to Trev Burkhill and Owen Cubitt.Mark gurran and Anne Lofthouse from Group 6 Steve marfleet,tom Blagg,Bob Pinder and Jack Kerr making it form groups 7&8.

LAST 16

SCOTT BENNET 4-2 JACK KERR
GREG BEARD 4-2 TOM BLAGG
14,15,17 and a 120 out for Greg
JORDAN MATTHEWS 4-1 ANNE LOFTHOUSE
LEE CUSHWORTH 4-2 OWEN CUBITT
3x180s with two for Lee
TREVOR BURKHILL 4-1 MARTIN RICHARDS
15,,15,16,12 120 out and a maximum for Trev and a 120 out and a 12 for Martin
MARK GURRAN 4-2 LESTER BOWERS
147&121 out for Mark
STEVE MARFLEET 4-1 SIE SIMMONS
BOB PINDER 4-0 PAUL HAMPTON
2x16,18 and 2x180s for bob  and a maximum for Paul

LAST 8SCOTT BENNET 3-4 GREG BEARD
JORDAN MATTHEWS 2-4 LEE CUSHWORTH
2X180S for Jordan
TREVOR BURKHILL 4-0 MARK GURRAN
2x15,13,198 dart legs a 121 out and a 180 for trev
STEVE MARFLEET 2-4 BOB PINDER
180 for Steve,2x180s for bob and legs of 14/16 for bob

SEMI FINALS

GREG BEARD 4-3 LEE CUSHWORTH
17,19,19 FOR greg 2X19S For Lee
TREV BURKHILL 4-1 BOB PINDER
14,18,19,17 and a 111 out for trev and a 16 for Bob

FINAL
TREV BURKHILL 5-0 GREG BEARD
18,17,17,18,12 FOR Trev

Pete Bramley & tom gurran

Owen Cubitt,sie simmons and Brian Lewis

The plate was won by Pete bramley beating tom gurran in the final and the champion of champions qualifier went for the 2nd year in a row to Brian Lewis with victory over sie simmons with both men really stepping up there game in the short format

YORKSHIRE OPEN
2014       MARK LAWRENCE      SHAUN CARROLL
2015       JARON ESTEVE       LEE BUDGEN  
2016       DARREN JOHNSON     CARL WILKINSON
2017       TREVOR BURKHILL    GREG BEARD