South African Masters (darts)

The Emperors Palace South African Masters was a darts tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation which began in 2007, so-named because it took place at the Emperors Palace entertainment resort in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Format and qualification

The tournament had 8 players, 4 of which were the top ranked players on the PDC Order of Merit and the semi-finalists, runner up and winner of the PDC South African Open which takes place the day before. The four players chosen by the PDC were drawn up against the qualifiers from the PDC South African Open in a knock-out tournament. In 2007, Phil Taylor, Raymond van Barneveld, James Wade and Terry Jenkins, ranked numbers one to four in the Order of Merit respectively at the time, participated in the tournament. In the following year, Taylor and Wade, returned to the tournament, being ranked numbers one and three in the world at the time. John Part, ranked number four in the world, also participated, as did Wayne Mardle, who replaced Barneveld (ranked second) due to the Dutchman's two month sabbatical from darts. Taylor, Wade, Part and Mervyn King took part in the 2009 tournament.

Matches were as follows:

• Quarter-final: best of 7 legs
• Semi-final: Best of 9 legs (formerly in 2007 best of 11 legs)
• Final: Best of 11 legs (formerly in 2007 best of 15 legs, in 2008 best of 9 legs)

Since the 2010 tournament, the event is the direct qualification tournament for the World Darts Championship for South African darts players.

Television

The tournament was broadcast live on SuperSport in South Africa. In the United Kingdom, the tournament was broadcast on Challenge in 2007, Nuts TV in 2008, and Sky Sports in 2009.

Results

2009

• During the fifth leg of the semi-final between James Wade and Mervyn King, King hit the first ever televised nine-dart finish outside of Europe. He hit two consecutive 180s, and then used T20, T19, D12 to complete the perfect leg. King went 4–1 up as a result of that leg, but still lost the match 5–4.

Previous winners

Year	Champion	Score	Runner-up	Total prize money	Winner's prize
2007	Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor	8–6	Template:Flagicon Raymond van Barneveld	£15,000	£5,000
2008	Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor	5–2	Template:Flagicon John Part	£15,000	£5,000
2009	Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor	6–4	Template:Flagicon James Wade	£15,000	£5,000

World Darts Championship Qualification Tournament

Year	Champion	Score	Runner-up	Semi-finalist 1 (lost to Champion)	Semi-finalist 2 (lost to Runner-Up)
2006	Template:Flagicon Wynand Havenga	4–1	Template:Flagicon Paul Meyer	Template:Flagicon Paul McMahon	Template:Flagicon Roshan Sivraman
2007	Template:Flagicon Charles Losper	4–0	Template:Flagicon Lodewyk Marais	Template:Flagicon Mike Ryder	Template:Flagicon Paul Meyer
2008	Template:Flagicon Charles Losper	4–1	Template:Flagicon Mark Jackson	Template:Flagicon Shawn Hogan	Template:Flagicon Les Francis
2009	Template:Flagicon Les Francis	4–3	Template:Flagicon Devon Petersen	Template:Flagicon Wynand Havenga	Template:Flagicon Christo Meiring
2010	Template:Flagicon Devon Petersen	5–4	Template:Flagicon Les Francis	Template:Flagicon Charles Losper	Template:Flagicon Jeff Waterman
2011	Template:Flagicon Devon Petersen	beat	Template:Flagicon Nolan Arendse	Template:Flagicon Brent Robertson	Template:Flagicon Gary Dowman
2012	Template:Flagicon Charl Pietersen	8–1	Template:Flagicon Charles Losper	Template:Flagicon Shawn Hogan	Template:Flagicon Jason Hendricks
2013	Template:Flagicon Devon Petersen	9–3	Template:Flagicon Graham Filby	Template:Flagicon Charles Losper	Template:Flagicon Charl Petersen
2014	Template:Flagicon Nolan Arendse	9–5	Template:Flagicon Devon Petersen	Template:Flagicon Shawn Hogan	Template:Flagicon Charl Pietersen
2015	Template:Flagicon Warrick Scheffer	9–2	Template:Flagicon Clifford Stradling	Template:Flagicon Charl Pietersen	Template:Flagicon Charles Losper
2021	Template:Flagicon Cameron Carolissen	9–8	Template:Flagicon Charles Losper	Template:Flagicon Carl Gabriel	Template:Flagicon Warrick Scheffer
2022	Template:Flagicon Stefan Vermaak	9–8	Template:Flagicon Charles Losper	Template:Flagicon Shawn Hogan	Template:Flagicon Cameron Carolissen
2023	Template:Flagicon Wynand Havenga	7–0	Template:Flagicon Deon Oliver	Template:Flagicon Charles Losper	Template:Flagicon Stefan Vermaak
2024	Template:Flagicon Simon Adams	12–10	Template:Flagicon Leslie Gouvea	Template:Flagicon Wynand Havenga	Template:Flagicon Deon Oliver

References

1. REDIRECTTemplate:PDC Darts