Can Beau Greaves Become the First Woman to Qualify for the World Grand Prix?

The World Grand Prix follows hot on the heels of Luke Littler's World Matchplay triumph, running from Monday, September 28 to Sunday, October 4 at the Mattioli Arena in Leicester. 

As always, the top 16 of the main PDC Order of Merit are guaranteed their place, Littler, Luke Humphries, Gian van Veen, Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton among them. 

The other 16 spots come from the ProTour Order of Merit, and that's where this story gets interesting.

Last year, Andrew Gilding claimed the final ProTour qualifying spot on £75,000. Right now, with five ranking events left before the cut-off, Dave Chisnall sits in that same 16th spot, on £78,250.

That looks like a modest rise on the surface, but the season isn't over. The PDC's prize money increases this year have been substantial: Players Championship events are up 20% (from £125,000 to £150,000 per event), while European Tour prize funds have jumped 31% (from £175,000 to £230,000)^[1]. 

Factor in those increases alongside historical qualification patterns, and we'd expect roughly a 20% rise on last year's cut-off figure, putting the 16th spot at somewhere around £90,000 by the time the World Grand Prix field is confirmed.

Where Beau Greaves stands

Beau Greaves currently sits 21st on the ProTour Order of Merit (not including the main order of merit qualifiers) with £66,250^[2]. 

To hit that projected £90,000 cut-off, she needs to find roughly £23,750 across five remaining events, two Players Championships and three European Tour appearances.

Despite being just 22 years old, Greaves is arguably already the best women's darts player of all time. 

She's a three-time WDF Women's World Champion, a three-time PDC Women's World Matchplay champion, and currently the only woman on the PDC's professional tour. 

She became just the second woman ever to win a PDC Tour Card outright, following Lisa Ashton in 2020, but where Ashton's route ended there, Greaves has grabbed the opportunity with both hands.

That target arrives on the back of a genuinely remarkable year. Since claiming her Tour Card at the start of the season, she has become the first woman to hit a nine-dart finish on the PDC Pro Tour, the first woman to qualify for a European Tour event, and, most significantly, the first woman to win a PDC ranking title, beating Michael Smith in the Players Championship 11 final back in April.

The two Players Championships: what she needs

Players Championships 27 and 28 will take place on August 25 and 26 at the Mattioli Arena, the very venue that will host the World Grand Prix itself. 

The prize money on offer at each event breaks down as follows:

• Last 64: £1,250
• Last 32: £2,000
• Last 16: £3,000
• Quarter-finals: £4,000
• Semi-finals: £6,500
• Runner-up: £10,000
• Winner: £15,000

Greaves' 2026 record going into these two events reads: 26 Players Championship starts, one title (that PC11 triumph), three quarter-final finishes, one semi-final, and the rest exits before the last eight.

On that form, she has roughly a one-in-three chance of reaching at least a quarter-final in her next two starts. But finding £15,000-plus from two events in that window would take something closer to another title run than a pair of solid last-eight finishes. 

Realistically, back-to-back quarter-final runs look like the minimum requirement to keep the qualification bid alive heading into her European Tour debut.

On current trajectory, qualification looks unlikely, though after the year she's had, nobody in darts is ruling it out entirely.

The betting markets for PC27 and PC28 aren't open yet, but history offers a guide. 

At Players Championship 13 in May, three weeks after her maiden title, Greaves was priced at 20/1, with the market led by Wessel Nijman (7/1), Michael van Gerwen (17/2) and Gary Anderson (9/1). Expect a similar price for the Leicester events. 

The European Tour: uncharted territory

This is where the story gets genuinely historic. Greaves has already qualified for all three remaining European Tour events before the World Grand Prix cut-off: the Hungarian Darts Trophy (August 28–30), the Czech Darts Open (September 4–6), and the Flanders Darts Trophy (September 11–13). 

Simply appearing in the field makes her the first woman ever to play on the European Tour.

The prize money structure at these events is considerably richer than the floor circuit:

• First round: £2,000
• Second round: £3,500
• Round of 16: £5,000
• Quarter-finals: £8,000
• Semi-finals: £10,000
• Runner-up: £15,000
• Winner: £35,000

Because Greaves has no track record on this tour, there's no historical data to lean on for a betting-based prediction. But the maths is straightforward enough. Winning even one of these three events on debut would all but guarantee World Grand Prix qualification outright. 

Short of that, three runs deep into the weekend, ideally as far as the quarterfinals, would put her in a strong position. 

The key requirement is simply not falling at the first hurdle in all three, one deep run combined with a couple of solid Players Championship performances could be enough to get her over the £90,000 line.

As for prices, we couldn't find a published outright market yet for either the Hungarian Darts Trophy or the Czech Darts Open, European Tour outright boards typically don't go live until a few days before the event, once qualifiers and seedings are fully locked. 

Based on her PC13 price against a similarly stacked field, a debut price somewhere in the 20/1–33/1 range looks a reasonable expectation, though that's an informed estimate rather than a confirmed figure. 

Worth checking Oddschecker and bet365 again closer to August 28 for the real number.

The verdict

If the £23,750 target holds up, we think Greaves has the game to get there. 

She's already shown she can beat former world champions on the biggest floor stages, and the belief clearly hasn't wavered since that historic PC11 win. 

It won't be straightforward, the numbers say she needs at least one big run somewhere across these five events, but betting against Greaves in 2026 has been a losing game so far.