WITH a month to go until the start of the partypoker.com World Grand Prix, the race is on for players to claim qualifying places in the famous double-start tournament.
Three weekends of PDC action remain before the cut-off, with two European Tour events to be followed by a Players Championship double-header.
September's action kicks off with the European Darts Trophy in Muelheim, Germany from September 11-13, as 48 players compete at the RWE Sporthalle across three days for £115,000 in prize money.
The European Darts Matchplay will then be held from September 18-20 at the Olympiahalle in Innsbruck, as the European Tour heads to Austria for the year's eighth event.
The action then returns to the UK for Players Championship events on September 26 & 27 at the Barnsley Metrodome, which are the final tournaments being played before the cut-off for the 32-player partypoker.com World Grand Prix.
The leading 16 players from the PDC Order of Merit will qualify by right, alongside the leading 14 non-qualified players from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit and the top two Irish/Northern Irish players from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit.
Currently, Raymond van Barneveld - a former World Grand Prix finalist - holds the 16th position on the PDC Order of Merit, holding a £4,250 advantage over Vincent van der Voort, with Justin Pipe and Stephen Bunting also bidding to break into the world's top 16.
Van der Voort, Pipe and Bunting would, though, be amongst the ProTour Order of Merit Qualifiers, alongside Jelle Klaasen, Benito van de Pas, Mensur Suljovic, Gerwyn Price, John Henderson, Steve Beaton, Andrew Gilding, Keegan Brown, Jamie Lewis, Mark Webster and Joe Murnan.
Jamie Caven and Kyle Anderson are also in the hunt for qualifying places, with Northern Ireland's Daryl Gurney and Ireland's William O'Connor in line to claim the "home" qualifying places.
The partypoker.com World Grand Prix will be held at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin from October 4-10, with the tournament famously featuring the unique format which sees players need to both begin and end each leg with a double.
Tickets for the partypoker.com World Grand Prix can be purchased through the following methods:
Via SeeTickets
Online via www.seetickets.com/darts
Telephone - Irish customers by calling 0818 776 378.
Telephone - UK customers by calling 0844 871 8807.
Telephone - International customers by calling 0044 114 223 9817.
Via Citywest Hotel
By email to darts15@citywesthotel.com.
Telephone - By calling 01 401 0505.
2015 partypoker.com World Grand Prix
Current Provisional PDC Order of Merit Top 16
Prize Money won during September to be added
| 1 | van Gerwen, Michael | £1,054,000 |
| 2 | Anderson, Gary | £582,500 |
| 3 | Taylor, Phil | £510,250 |
| 4 | Wright, Peter | £366,750 |
| 5 | Lewis, Adrian | £336,500 |
| 6 | Wade, James | £322,750 |
| 7 | Thornton, Robert | £236,000 |
| 8 | White, Ian | £217,500 |
| 9 | Chisnall, Dave | £214,000 |
| 10 | Whitlock, Simon | £211,750 |
| 11 | Dolan, Brendan | £211,250 |
| 12 | Smith, Michael | £205,000 |
| 13 | Jenkins, Terry | £196,250 |
| 14 | King, Mervyn | £195,500 |
| 15 | Huybrechts, Kim | £188,500 |
| 16 | van Barneveld, Raymond | £182,750 |
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| 17 | van der Voort, Vincent | £178,500 |
| 18 | Pipe, Justin | £175,500 |
| 19 | Bunting, Stephen | £174,250 |
| 20 | Hamilton, Andy | £142,000 |
| 21 | Newton, Wesley | £136,750 |
| 22 | Caven, Jamie | £132,750 |
| 23 | Klaasen, Jelle | £122,750 |
| 24 | Beaton, Steve | £118,250 |
Current Provisional PDC ProTour Order of Merit
Prize Money won during September to be added. Current Provisional Qualifiers marked with *
| 1 | van Gerwen, Michael | £190,750 |
| 2 | Wade, James | £84,500 |
| 3 | Lewis, Adrian | £75,250 |
| 4 | Smith, Michael | £67,000 |
| 5 | Wright, Peter | £60,250 |
| 6 | Thornton, Robert | £58,250 |
| 7 | White, Ian | £57,250 |
| 8 | Anderson, Gary | £56,750 |
| 9 | Huybrechts, Kim | £50,750 |
| 9 | Dolan, Brendan | £50,750 |
| 11 | Chisnall, Dave | £49,000 |
| 12 | Pipe, Justin * | £48,000 |
| 13 | Klaasen, Jelle * | £46,750 |
| 14 | Jenkins, Terry | £38,500 |
| 15 | van der Voort, Vincent * | £38,250 |
| 16 | van de Pas, Benito * | £35,250 |
| 17 | Whitlock, Simon | £33,250 |
| 18 | Suljovic, Mensur * | £30,750 |
| 19 | King, Mervyn | £30,500 |
| 19 | Taylor, Phil | £30,500 |
| 21 | Bunting, Stephen * | £26,500 |
| 22 | Price, Gerwyn * | £25,000 |
| 23 | Henderson, John * | £24,250 |
| 24 | Beaton, Steve * | £23,250 |
| 25 | Gilding, Andrew * | £22,500 |
| 25 | Brown, Keegan * | £22,500 |
| 27 | Lewis, Jamie * | £22,000 |
| 28 | Webster, Mark * | £21,750 |
| 29 | Murnan, Joe * | £21,500 |
| 30 | Caven, Jamie | £20,500 |
| 31 | Anderson, Kyle | £18,750 |
| 32 | Gurney, Daryl * | £17,500 |
| 33 | Kist, Christian | £15,000 |
| 34 | Reyes, Cristo | £13,750 |
| 35 | van Duijvenbode, Dirk | £13,250 |
| 35 | Webster, Darren | £13,250 |
| 37 | Norris, Alan | £13,000 |
| 37 | de Zwaan, Jeffrey | £13,000 |
| 39 | Rodriguez, Rowby-John | £12,750 |
| 39 | Smith, Andy | £12,750 |
| 41 | Hopp, Max | £12,500 |
| 42 | Cullen, Joe | £12,000 |
| 43 | Wilson, James | £11,750 |
| 44 | Hamilton, Andy | £11,500 |
| 45 | O'Connor, William * | £11,250 |
| 45 | Pallett, David | £11,250 |
| 47 | van Barneveld, Raymond | £11,000 |
| 48 | Petersen, Devon | £10,750 |
| 48 | Huybrechts, Ronny | £10,750 |