“Van Gerwen almost never gets fined” – Van der Voort doesn’t believe all players are treated equally by DRA
At the end of this year, Vincent van der Voort will bid the PDC farewell (for the time being). He won’t miss the fines that the organization’s disciplinary committee used to regularly impose on him, though.
For the PDC, the Darts Regulation Authority (DRA) is responsible for the fines handed out when, in their opinion, players do not follow the rules or put the game into disrepute. Over his many years on the Pro Tour, Van der Voort has often had run ins with this disciplinary committee. “They probably don’t like my head, that could be possible,” Van der Voort laughed in the podcast’Darts Draait Door’.
Despite this though, Van der Voort feels not all players are treated equally. “Van Gerwen almost never gets fined. Somehow, he is protected. That has been the case from the beginning,” the Dutchman explains. “I only have to look at someone and then it’s not good. I get another fine. But Michael always gets a warning, I swear to you. He always gets away with everything, he’s always lucky.
Unlike his compatriot, Van der Voort has, as mentioned, had to pay regular fines over the course of his career. “I once got a fine of 250 pounds because I didn’t write (keep score, ed.) in another match,” he recalls one such instance. “It was during the corona period and the PDC didn’t have their own writers at the tournaments. We, as darts players, had to do it ourselves. I had lost and had already forgotten about it. I was already in my hotel room when an official called me to write. I said I was coming and just stayed there. Bye . I knew I would get that fine. It was only 250 pounds. If it had been 2000 pounds, I probably would have left my room.”
