Restless at the sport’s dwindling TV exposure, the best players in the game, including Lowe, Phil Taylor and Eric Bristow, broke away from the BDO to form the World Darts Council (WDC), which later became the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC).
'I rejected big money during darts breakaway – I'm still not sure if I made the right call' More than 30 years on, John Lowe still wonders if he made the right decision.
And when a company like Embassy offers you £20,000 [more than £50,000 in today’s money] to stay… If I had gone back, Sky TV would not have shown the first World Championship.
"It runs a bit deeper than that because Embassy, who sponsored the World Championship, asked me to go back to the BDO before this new division started and they offered me a substantial amount of money.
I was a joiner and when I started playing darts professionally, I still had it in the back of my mind that I could go back to that and set up a nice little business.
