Scott Waites

Scott Waites
Personal information
Nickname	Scotty 2 Hotty
Born
Home town	Halifax, West Yorkshire
Darts information
Playing darts since	2004
Darts	Red Dragon Darts / Penetrators - 23 gram
Laterality	Right-handed
Walk-on music	Chelsea Dagger by The Fratellis
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO	2004 to present
PDC	n/a
Current world ranking	2 (BDO) 4 (WDF)
WDF major events – best performances
World Ch'ship	Quarter-final 2008, 2009, 2010
World Masters	Runner-up 2008
World Trophy	Last 16 2007
Int. Darts League	Last 16 2007
PDC premier events – best performances
UK Open	Last 32 2008
Grand Slam	Runner-up 2009
Other tournament wins
Tournament	Years
Dutch Open Welsh Masters BDO Gold Cup Belgium Open Swedish Open Turkish Open	2007 2007 2008 2008 2008 2010
Updated on 7 December 2008.

Scott Waites (born 17 February 1977 in Bradford, Yorkshire) is an English professional darts player who plays in tournaments organised by the British Darts Organisation.

Darts career

Waites' first career success came in February 2007 when he won the Dutch Open an event which attracted 2867 entries. He also took the Welsh Masters title in March 2007 and earlier reached the final of the 2007 Scottish Open.

Barry Hearn confirmed on 13 August 2007 via the official PDC website, that Scott Waites was the highest ranked non-qualifier in the BDO that had accepted his invitation to compete in the inaugural Grand Slam of Darts, alongside Dennis Priestley (highest PDC non-qualifier). At the tournament he failed to qualify for the knockout stage, losing all three group matches to Michael van Gerwen, Mervyn King and Roland Scholten.

He made his World Championship debut at the 2008 BDO World Darts Championship and reached the quarter-finals, defeating Mike Veitch and Remco van Eijden before losing to Brian Woods.

Waites was one of 32 pub qualifiers for the 2008 PDC UK Open, reaching to the last 32 stage, losing to Ronnie Baxter.

On 12 July 2008 Waites won the 2008 BDO Gold Cup, beating Gary Anderson four sets to two in the final. In December 2008, Waites reached his first major BDO final, reaching the Winmau World Masters final. He was beaten in a great game 7-6 to Martin Adams who won his first Masters title.

Through his performances at the World Masters, the World Championship and also the Zuiderduin Masters, Waites became the number one ranked player on the BDO world rankings. Waites reached the quarter finals of the 2009 BDO World Championship, losing to Darryl Fitton 5-4 having led 4-2.

He entered the 2009 Winmau World Masters as the number two seed, but lost in the last 16 stage in a major upset to Lourence Ilagan of The Philippines having had several darts to win the match.

Scotts biggest success to date came in November 2009 at the Grand Slam of Darts, held at Wolverhampton Civic Centre, where he made the final. He was beaten 16-2 by PDC world number one Phil Taylor. This earned Waites £50,000, the biggest prize of his career so far.

For some of his matches he has used Chelsea Dagger by The Fratellis as his entrance music. However at the 2009 Grand Slam of Darts, Waites used Walk This Way by Run-D.M.C., to avoid a clash with Chelsea Dagger, the music played during breaks.

Waites enters the 2010 BDO World Championship as the 2nd seed. For the third consecutive year, he was knocked out at the quarter final stage, this time by Martin Phillips of Wales. Waites had recovered from 4-0 down to level at 4-4 before Phillips prevailed.

Personal life

He currently resides in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire with fiancee Sally and her son.

Outside darts

Waites is not a full-time professional player and currently earns his full-time living as a carpenter for the council linked Pennine Housing 2000, Calderdale. Using his company van (and fuel) to travel to and from all his daily practice games and many prize winning games.

External links

• Profile and stats on Darts Database