Additionally, holding a PDC Tour Card offers further benefits such as automatic qualifications for the UK Open or participation in the qualifying rounds for the World Darts Championship, Grand Slam and World Masters, among others.
All these players have their Order of Merit rankings reset to zero since the beginning of the season.
[1] According to PDC Order of Merit Rule 3.2,[2] in case a tie occurs when two or more players have the same amount of money in the PDC Order of Merit, the countback rule is used to break the tie.
Leighton Bennett's Tour Card, which he won at the 2024 Q-School, was removed as he had received an eight-year suspension from events sanctioned by the Darts Regulation Authority (DRA).
[3] Paul Krohne voluntarily gave back his Tour Card which he won at 2024 Q-School.