Whyte + Mackay Premier League Darts listings

Thursday Night is...

 ...Whyte & Mackay Premier League Darts Night

This Thursday, 23rd April 2009, the Whyte & Mackay Premier League Darts is bringing an electric atmosphere to Aberdeen when the eight best darts players in the world go head-to-head at the Aberdeen Exhibition Centre in the ongoing quest to be named 2009 champion.

The event is the largest indoor sporting event in the UK with over 70,000 fans witnessing the biggest names in darts step up to the Oche in 15 different cities up and down the UK - making it one of the hottest tickets in sport.

The Aberdeen Exhibition Centre will be welcoming the Whyte and Mackay Premier League Darts 2009 back for the final Scottish date as the countdown begins to the final of the tournament on 25^th May in Wembley.

The Whyte & Mackay Premier League Darts is one of the biggest and best sporting events around boasting a massive £400,000 prize fund, with £125,000 to the winner - the joint highest prize in darts.

Phil ‘The Power' Taylor has won all four previous Premier League Darts tournaments, but faces his toughest defence yet as the sport's other elite players battle it out to steal his title including Raymond Van Barneveld, James Wade, and Terry Jenkins. 

Darts attracts the biggest audience on Sky Sports of any indoor sport, and is second only to Premier League football overall. Sky Sports will televise every dart live, in both Standard and High Definition, as millions of viewers around the world tune in.

Venue: Aberdeen Exhibition Centre

Date: Thursday 23^rd April

Time: 7.00pm

Tickets: From £20

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NOTES TO EDITORS

• For further details on the Professional Darts Corporation, see www.planetdarts.tv.
• Darts was official recognised as a sport in the UK on June 6 2005.
• Over 1 million people in the UK class themselves as regular (monthly or more frequently) darts players.
• Whyte & Mackay Scotch whisky was founded on the docks of Glasgow in 1844 by James Whyte and Charles Mackay
• Whyte & Mackay is the fastest growing blended whisky in the GB off trade at +62% (Nielsen % change Nov 8).

• Other brands in Whyte & Mackay's award winning portfolio consist of Jura malt whisky, The Dalmore malt whisky, Glayva liqueur and Vladivar vodka.
• http://www.whyteandmackay.com/

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For more information on the Whyte & Mackay Premier League Darts, or on Whyte & Mackay please contact -

Elaine McLaren / 0131 538 8323 / 07515 066 354 / elaine.mclaren@dada.co.uk