Conan Whitehead


Conan Ross Whitehead is an English professional darts player who currently plays within the Professional Darts Corporation.

Career

Whitehead has competed in numerous competitions throughout his career, starting in 2008. In 2009, he won the 2009 Kent Open, beating Steve Douglas in the final. Since then, he has only been in one other final. This was in the 2016 England Open where he lost 3-6 to Glen Durrant. He reached the Quarter final of the 2017 BDO World Trophy, his best TV major performance to date. This was equalled at his third appearance at the BDO World Darts Championship where he knocked out top seed Mark McGeeney before losing to Scott Waites in the quarter-finals.
In one of the Target Nexus tournaments he won the Final from Antonio de Weerd with 4-0. Antonio played well this time.

PDC

In January 2019, Whitehead entered PDC UK Q-School and did enough to earn a two-year Tour Card by finishing in the top eleven of the Order of Merit.

Personal life

Whitehead is a bricklayer by trade. When asked post-match in an interview how we juggles his bricklaying with his darts, he asserted to the interviewer that "Bricklaying is a lot like darts - they're both made of gelatinous material". There was a brief pause as the interviewer and those watching at home assumed Conan would elaborate on his comparison. The explanation did not come about, and Conan winked at the camera as it panned out and back to studio where a puzzled panel mutually denounced Conan for having offered up such a contrived comparison with zero evidence to back it up.

World Championship results

BDO