Sean Reed | |
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Personal information | |
Nickname | "The Silver Surfer" |
Born | 28 June 1965 Isle of Wight, England |
Home town | Sydney, Australia |
Darts information | |
Playing darts since | 1995 |
Darts | 22g Puma Darts |
Laterality | Right-handed |
Walk-on music | "Rock and Roll" by Led Zeppelin |
Organisation (see split in darts) | |
BDO | 2004–2009 |
PDC | 2009–2012 |
PDC premier events – best performances | |
World Ch'ship | Last 64: 2012 |
Other tournament wins | |
Tournament | Years |
Australia National Ch'ships DPA Australian Matchplay Mittagong RSL Open Redcliffe Darts Open Victoria Open Warilla Bowls Club Open | 2009 2012 2010 2011, 2012 2012 2012 |
Updated on 22 January 2019. |
Sean Reed (born 28 June 1965) is an English-born Australian former professional darts player.
Reed started playing darts at the age of 29. At the time, he was living in Japan, where he was working as an English language teacher. During his time in Japan, he won more than 60 state and national titles including four Grand Master Titles in '98, '99, '02, '03.
In 2004, Reed started playing soft-tip darts. He had moderate success picking up 16 titles over a three-year period. In 2007, he set an unofficial world record of more than 28,000 points scored in just one hour retrieving his own darts and operating the setting of the darts machine.
Reed qualified for the 2012 PDC World Darts Championship as the winner of the Australian Grand Prix series. [1] In the first round, he played against Justin Pipe. Despite winning the first set, Reed lost the match 1–3. [2]
In 2014, Reed became a co-founder and CEO of the International Target Darting Organization (I.T.D.O.).
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