The Masters
The Masters is a PDC tournament which was played for the first time in November 2013. The tournament took place in Scotland. In 2015
the tournament moved to Milton Keynes and now usually is played end of January.
In this tournament the Top 24 (first Top 16) of the PDC Order of Merit play in a knock-out format over three days against each other. On Friday the First Round takes place with the Top 9 -24, on Saturday the Second Round is played and the seeds enter the tournament and on Sunday quarterfinals, Semifinals and Final will be played. In 2025 the first round will be played over two days and the tournament will already begin on Thursday. Before on Wednesday the Preliminary Round will be played.
First Round is Best of 11 Legs, second round and Quarterfinals are Best of 19 Legs and Semifinals and Final Best of 21 Legs. In 2025 the format will change to a set format with best of three Legs. The Preliminaty round will be Best of 3 Sets, the first round Best of 5, second round and quarterfinals Best of 7 Sets, semi-finals Best of 9 Sets and the final Best of 11 Sets.
2025 the tournament will change. It will be renamed in Winmau World Masters and starts with a Preliminary Round in which the field of participants could look like this:
PDC Tour Card holders not yet qualified for the event (up to 104)
Top 8 non-Tour Card holder of the final Orders of Merit 2024 of the
- PDC Winmau Challenge Tour
- PDC Winmau Development Tour
- PDC Women's Series
- PDC Nordic & Baltic ProTour
- PDC Asian Tour
- CDC ProTour
- DartPlayers Australia ProTour
- DartPlayers New Zealand ProTour
- 4x Junior Darts Corporation representatives
Should players inside the Top 8 not accept their invitatons no other players of the respective Order of Merit will move up. Should players be part of several of the above mentioned Orders of Merit the priority follows the sequence of the Orders above
The Preliminary Round will be played first in Round Robin in 32 groups, the 32 winners Progress into the next round, all eight quarterfinalists will get a place in the tournament.
The tournament will count for the ranking. It is not the same tournament as the former Winmau World Masters, which is now the WDF World Masters.
The tournament is televised by ITV 4.
Winner
| Masters 2013 | Phil Taylor | 10:1 | Adrian Lewis |
| Masters 2014 | James Wade | 11:10 | Mervyn King |
| Masters 2015 | Michael van Gerwen | 11:6 | Raymond van Barneveld |
| Masters 2016 | Michael van Gerwen | 11:6 | Dave Chisnall |
| Masters 2017 | Michael van Gerwen | 11:7 | Gary Anderson |
| Masters 2018 | Michael van Gerwen | 11:9 | Raymond van Barneveld |
| Masters 2019 | Michael van Gerwen | 11:5 | James Wade |
| Masters 2020 | Peter Wright | 11:10 | Michael Smith |
| Masters 2021 | Jonny Clayton | 11:8 | Mervyn King |
| Masters 2022 | Joe Cullen | 11:9 | Dave Chisnall |
| Masters 2023 | Chris Dobey | 11:7 | Rob Cross |
| Masters 2024 | Stephen Bunting | 11:7 | Michael van Gerwen |
Price Money
| Year | Winner | Runner-Up | Semifinals | Quarterfinals | Last 16 | First Round |
| 2013 | 50 000 Pound | 20 000 Pound | 10 000 Pound | 7500 Pound | 5000 Pound | - |
| 2015-2022 | 60 000 Pound | 25 000 Pound | 17 500 Pound | 10 000 Pound | 5000 Pound | - |
| 2023 | 50 000 Pound | 30 000 Pound | 20 000 Pound | 12 000 Pound | 7500 Pound | 4000 Pound |
| 2025 | 100 000 Pound | 50 000 Pound | 30 000 Pound | 17 500 Pound | 10 000 Pound | 5000 Pound |
Price Money Preliminary Round
| Year | Last 16 | Last 32 | Last 64 |
| 2025 | 2500 Pound | 1000 Pound | 750 Pound |