Arresting triumph for Darren at Open

HISTORY was made at the Olympos Centre in Burgess Hill on Sunday when qualifier Darren Burnett won the World Bowls Tour Open.
By The Newsroom
Published 2nd Dec 2008, 13:00 BST
Updated 8th Jun 2018, 04:00 BST

The policeman from Arbroath earned himself 12,000 by taking the championship following a 13-4, 10-9 victory against Australian qualifier Brett Wilkie at the televised event and becoming the first qualifier for 11 years to win any World Bowls Tour ranking event.

It was a tournament not only of huge quality but also of surprises when Jason Greenslade was the only seed to reach the quarter-finals. To have four unseeded semi-finalists was also unprecedented.

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On his way up to face Wilkie, Burnett (32), an experienced Scotland international, defeated world top-ranker Alex Marshall, Robert Weale and qualifiers Nicky Brett and Richard Morgan.

Wilkie (32) was recently selected for the Australia training squad but went into the tournament feeling jet-lagged and under par after donating bone marrow a week before he left for the tournament. Mid Sussex District Council chairman Cllr Christine Hersey presented the awards.

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