Brian “Pecker” Woods

Brian started playing darts when he was about 15 years old at Egremont in Cumbria, but did not start playing seriously until he was 22 years old. He acquired the nickname of 'Pecker' as a youngster and it has stayed with over the years as he developed his skills on the dartboard and turned Pro.

Sports such as football, rugby and snooker filled his time in his formative years, but as Brian grew older darts became his passion and for a while he used a strange choice of flights for his games as he used one red, one yellow and one white flight in his darts. The colours were of course the colours of his favorite football team, Liverpool.

Brian Woods has played for his County team of Cumbria since he was 24 years old and after he was made Captain last year the team immediately gained promotion to a higher division. Now living in Aberdeen he is still playing for Cumbria and is their number one player with a current W.D.F. Ranking of 31.

2003 saw Brian’s first real taste of success at a high level when he won a National Singles Champion. Since then he has gone from strength to strength competing in, and winning, many competitions. 2007 was a particularly good year for him as he won 3 very important competitions, the I.D.P.A. Lakeside Classic, England Open Mixed Pairs and the Welsh Open Mixed Pairs. 2008 has also proved a very important year for him with many more competition successes which include being a Semi Finalist in the B.D.O. World Championship where he came close to achieving his life goal of winning the competition.

Qualifying for the Grand Slam at Wolverhampton this year gave Brian the chance at another big title, but unfortunately he did not rise to the occasion and did not make it past the Round Robin Heats Stages. Although Brian Woods has been on the stage at Lakeside before and is a full time Pro, he seemed very nervous at first and even perhaps a little overawed, when he played Andy Hamilton at Wolverhampton. As the game went on he settled down and started hitting some big scores including 4 x 180’s which brought his averages up. When he had a shot at the double he did not miss with a single dart hitting them with his first dart at every chance, until the last leg even finishing one leg with 2 double tops. The final score against The Hammer was 5-3 down, but he did have one dart at the double to finish and that was the only one he missed. If he hadn’t missed and had hit it, the score would have been 4-4 and could have led to a totally different outcome. Andy was the runner up the previous year to Phil Taylor and as such must have been one of the hot favorites in the whole competition.