Kevin McDine
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| Kevin McDine | ||
|---|---|---|
| Personal information | ||
| Nickname | SupaMc | |
| Date of birth | May 23, 1985 | |
| Place of birth | Wallsend, England | |
| Home town | Irthlingborough, England | |
| Organisation (see split in darts) | ||
| BDO | N/A | |
| PDC | 2004 to present | |
| Current World Ranking | 50 | |
| BDO Grand Slam Events - Best Performances | ||
| Int. Darts League | IDL Preliminary 2007 | |
| PDC Majors - Best Performances | ||
| UK Open | Last 64 2008 | |
| Other Televised PDC events - Best Performances | ||
| Grand Slam | Semi-Finals 2007 | |
| US Open | Last 64 2007 | |
Kevin McDine (born May 23, 1985 in Wallsend) is an English darts player, currently residing in Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire. He competes in Professional Darts Corporation events and is current ranking is 50 and he uses SupaMc as his nickname.
In November 2004 he reached the last 16 of the JR & Vauxhall Holiday Park 128 Plus Classic. He improved on that performance by reaching the semi-final of the Norfolk Open in November 2006. He won the Northants open in 2005 and 2006 and then joined the PDC in April 2007.
During 2007 he has made quick progress up the world rankings. He qualified for the group stages of the International Darts League and also made his first PDC Pro Tour final - the Irish Regional final of the UK Open, where he lost to Raymond van Barneveld. Having started the year at 214th, he had made it to 58th by the cut-off point for automatic qualification for the 2008 World Championship and finished 1 place short of qualifying through the players championship route - he also failed to make it through the qualifying tournament for the event.
He qualified for the Grand Slam of Darts in 2007, making his way through a field of over 230 players at the ITV Wildcard Qualifying event. He produced an excellent set of results in the event. It raised his profile within the game dramatically as the event was shown on ITV1 & ITV4. McDine beat Peter Manley and Shaun Greatbatch in the group stages then beat World Matchplay & Grand Prix champion James Wade 10-7 and former World Champion Jelle Klaasen 10-3 before falling to Andy Hamilton 13-12 in the semi-final. Target darts sponsored him for this event and were impressed enough to offer him a full contract and are in the process of producing his own design of stone grip darts.
Kevin also won the PDC's award for best TV performance of the year 2007 for his performance against James Wade in the Grand Slam with an average of 105.79 coming back from 6-3 down, recording an average of 120+ in the last 8 legs.
