[3] His first match win in a European Tour tournament came at the German Darts Championship when he defeated Andy Boulton 6−3.

[4] Taylor won a two-year PDC Tour Card in January 2017 by defeating Antonio Alcinas 5−1 on the third day of Q-School.

Taylor did not earn enough prize money between 2017–2018 to get himself into the world's Top 64 which meant that he lost his PDC Tour Card.

The qualifier was held the day before the event, Taylor won a place by making his way through the field and made his BDO major debut.

However the following day he played Jim Williams, the pair exchanged hold of throws to go 3-3 but Taylor missed three darts at double twenty to move 4–3 in front this was followed by another hold from Scott after surviving two darts missed for the match by Williams, who went onto beat Taylor 5–4.