Beau Greaves Facing Immediate Ban If She Joins PDC After Luke Littler Win

Beau Greaves will be banned from competing in several events under current rules if she accepts a PDC tour card from 2026 onwards.

Greaves secured an automatic two-year card by finishing as runner-up in the PDC Development Tour rankings.

The following day, on Monday, she defeated Luke Littler 6-5 to reach the World Youth Championship final.

Greaves averaged 105 compared to Littler's 107, and won with a thrilling 11-dart leg.

She will take on Netherlands' Gian van Veen in the final, which takes place at Minehead on November 24.

The 21-year-old has won her last 58 matches in the PDC Women's Series, and took Littler to a deciding leg at the Players Championship 24 event in August.

Greaves entered that tournament as a reserve, with the Development Tour rankings used to top up events when tour card holders are unavailable to play.

She will be entitled to play in every Players Championship event next season - if she chooses to play on the ProTour.

Any player who earns a tour card is under no obligation to accept it, while they can also opt out of playing in the PDC World Championship as well.

That is relevant to Greaves because she has previously opted to decline invitations to play in the World Championship, preferring instead to compete in the WDF Women's World Championship.

The Doncaster-born dartist won that event for the third consecutive year in 2024, earning £25,000 in prize money.

She was unable to play in both events as PDC rules prohibit players from competing in both their world championship and any of the WDF versions - a rule Greaves described as 'stupid'.

If Greaves joins the PDC ProTour full-time, she will also not be permitted to play in WDF events for contractual reasons.

She told Sky Sports in October 2024: "I have won the ladies' World Championship back to back now and I don't want to miss out on the chance of retaining that title, so that is all it comes down to.

"Hopefully, I can go back to Ally Pally in years to come, but right now I want to focus on ladies' darts."

Beau Greaves on PDC tour card

Greaves announced prior to the 2025 season that she would enter more events, and took part in UK Q-School in January.

Although she narrowly missed out on securing a tour card via that method, Greaves did compete in the UK Open for the first time, losing 10-7 to world number one Luke Humphries in round four.

Class from Luke Humphries to get Beau Greaves back on stage for more applause after their UK Open clash 👏 pic.twitter.com/uMCOVhsUNp

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She has been a semi-regular on the Players Championship circuit this season, and has qualified to compete in the Grand Slam of Darts later this year.

"I would like a Tour card at some point," she told reporters in November 2024. "I just don't know when.

"I'm not in a rush and there is nothing wrong being happy where you are in your life and what you've done. I have won a hell of a lot of darts tournaments so I want to do it in my own time."

Greaves has since hinted that she will indeed take a tour card for next year, with Sky Sports reporting that she is 'expected' to do so in a move that would prevent her from winning a fourth consecutive WDF women's title.

She said in May: "I would be stupid not to. You never know when you're going to get that chance again.

"So I think I would take it, give it a good two years. In hindsight, if I don't get one I'm still able to play absolutely everything, so it's a win-win.

"I want to have that next part of my game. I have been quite stuck at a level for quite a while, so I think getting a Tour Card might push me."