Scott MacKenzie (darts player)

Scott MacKenzie
Personal information
Nickname The Alchemist
Born 21 February 1972
Brazil
Home town Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Darts information
Playing darts since 1996
Laterality Right-handed
Organisation (see split in darts)
PDC 2010–
Current world ranking 131
BDO majors - best performances
World Masters Last 72: 2011
PDC premier events - best performances
World Ch'ship Last 64: 2012
Other tournament wins
Hong Kong Open 2010
PDC World China Qualifying Event 2010, 2011

Scott MacKenzie (born 21 February 1972) is a darts player from Hong Kong. He has represented Hong Kong on numerous occasions (in both steel tip and soft tip darts), including captaining the Hong Kong team at the 2008 Asia Pacific Cup in New Zealand. He was also a member of the 2010 Asia Pacific Cup in Japan.

Career

MacKenzie won the PDC Greater China Qualifier, defeating Alex Hon in the final, to qualify for the 2011 PDC World Darts Championship.[1] He became the first player from Hong Kong to qualify for a World Darts Championship. He played Germany's Jyhan Artut in the preliminary round, and missed two darts to win the match before losing 3-4.[2]

MacKenzie qualified for his second successive PDC World Championship in 2012 after defeating Royden Lam in the PDC Greater China Qualifier final.[3] He beat Paul Barham 4-2 in the best of seven legs preliminary round match to make it through to the last 64 for the first time. He played former World quarter-finalist, Wayne Jones, and was beaten 1-3.[4] In the rest of 2012 he lost in the quarter-finals of the Pacific Masters to Tony Carmichael and was also defeated in the semi-finals of the WDF Asia-Pacific Cup and Hong Kong Open.[5] He entered the PDC Qualifying School in an attempt to win a 2-year tour card but could not advance beyond the last 128 on any of the four days.[5]

MacKenzie made his debut in the World Cup of Darts in June 2014 as he represented Hong Kong with Royden Lam. They defeated Norway 5–2 in the first round to face Australia in the second round.[6] Lam lost his singles match against Simon Whitlock, before MacKenzie saw off Paul Nicholson to mean a doubles match was required to settle the tie, which Hong Kong were whitewashed in 4–0.[7]

MacKenzie reached the final of the 2015 World Championship PDPA qualifier and lost 5–2 to Jason Hogg.[8] However, it was enough to earn him a spot in the preliminary round of the event where he raced into a 3–0 lead over Daryl Gurney and missed one dart to win 4–0.[9] Gurney levelled the match at 3–3, before MacKenzie missed a dart at double 11 to complete a 142 finish and was defeated 4–3.[10]

World Championship results

PDC

Personal life

MacKenzie was born in Brazil to a Scottish father and a Japanese mother. After spending the first six years of his life in Brazil, MacKenzie and his family relocated to the UK. He moved to Hong Kong in 1996.[11]

He obtained a BSc and an MSc in Chemistry whilst studying at the University of Kent.[12] He is sponsored by Puma darts and has also recently been sponsored by Dartslive,DMC Darts and L-style. When not playing darts, he is an investor relations manager for a hedge fund.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Final International Winners Known PDC.tv
  2. ↑ World Championship - Night Five PDC.tv
  3. ↑ Trio Secure World Championship Spots PDC.tv
  4. ↑ "World Championship - Night One". PDC. December 15, 2011. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Scott MacKenzie 2012". Darts Database. Archived from the original on 15 February 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  6. ↑ "bwin World Cup of Darts First Round". PDC. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
  7. ↑ "bwin World Cup of Darts Second Round". PDC. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  8. ↑ "PDPA World Championship Qualifier". PDC. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
  9. ↑ "William Hill World Championship Draw". PDC. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
  10. ↑ "William Hill World Championship Day Three". PDC. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Interview with Scott MacKenzie
  12. ↑ Scott MacKenzie, Puma Darts sponsored player

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