At the end of 1993, he was number one in the WDF world rankings after all of the BDO's top players broke away to form the World Darts Council (now the Professional Darts Corporation, PDC).
Laurens made his World Championship debut in 1989, losing in the first round to American Rick Ney.
He returned a year later, beating Canada's Bob Sinnaeve,[1] before losing to Mike Gregory.
His best performance came in 1997, where he reached the quarter-finals after beating Ritchie Davies and Richie Burnett.
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