Terry Jenkins

Terry Jenkins (born 26 September 1963) is an English former professional darts player who was nicknamed The Bull, having previously used the name "Tucker" for his matches.

It is a common myth that Jenkins is one of only a few people to exclusively play in the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) when, in fact, Jenkins played in the British Darts Organisation (BDO) before, playing various opens from the early 1990s, and even reaching the quarter-finals of the World Masters in 2003.

Jenkins began to climb up the Professional Darts Corporation world rankings during 2005 by producing good performances in the tour events, which are played away from the television cameras.

He won the Primus Masters in 2005 and added the Antwerp Open and the Open Hotel Zwartwater titles in 2006.

Jenkins also played in several BDO events in the early stages of his career, including the Winmau World Masters where he once eliminated Tony O'Shea in the non-televised stages of the tournament.

He is also often in attendance for the BDO World Championship, although he has never played in the competition.

He reached number three in the world rankings and was a runner-up in nine major PDC televised finals, those being the 2006 and 2007 World Grand Prix, 2007 Premier League, 2007 Las Vegas Desert Classic, 2007 and 2009 World Matchplay, 2008 Grand Slam of Darts, 2014 UK Open and 2014 European Championship.

In October 2006, he started to reproduce this form in front of the cameras by reaching the quarter-finals of the 2006 Las Vegas Desert Classic and the final of the 2006 World Grand Prix in Dublin, Ireland.

Despite losing the final to Phil Taylor, he had just managed to achieve enough ranking points to reach sixth place in the world rankings and secured a place in the lucrative 2007 Premier League.

Terry qualified for the semi-finals of the 2007 Premier League Darts and beat world champion Raymond van Barneveld in the semi-final.

He lost to Phil Taylor in the final but he received his biggest career cheque of £40,000 for his run.

It was around this time that he started to become a crowd favourite.

He continued to perform well away from the cameras by winning two PDPA Players Championships in 2007 - the Antwerp Darts Trophy in April (along with a successful defence of his Antwerp Darts Open the same weekend) and the Isle Wight Players Championship at Hayling Island.

He also reached the final of the Las Vegas Players Championship, losing to Raymond van Barneveld.

Then less than a week later he lost heavily to Raymond in the Final of the Las Vegas Desert Classic 13–6 in legs.

Terry's good form continued into the World Matchplay where he reached the final after beating Taylor in a superb display of clinical finishing.

Terry also played well after failing to hit a perfect 9 darter after missing treble 19 for double 12 during the closing stages of the match.

After beating Taylor in the semi-finals, Jenkins lost at the final hurdle to James Wade, in an 18–7 thrashing.

He was also chosen to play in the Grand Slam of Darts where he lost in the quarter-finals to Andy Hamilton.

Jenkins lost to Shepherd in the first round of the 2008 PDC World Championship, a result which saw him lose confidence which saw his best form desert him on occasions.

He finished 7th in the 2008 Premier League Darts and then suffered a number of early round exits in major tournaments.

To add to his poor run of form, Jenkins was knocked out in the first round of the 2008 European Championship Darts, by Carlos Rodriguez of Spain, who was then ranked 91 in the world.

Despite not having a great year, Jenkins remained at No. 5 in the world.

Jenkins had a good tournament at the 2008 Grand Slam of Darts reaching the final of the event before losing 18–9 to Taylor.

2009 was a good year for Jenkins.

He started the year winning the Bobby Bourn Memorial Players Championship.

Despite not making the top 4 in the 2009 Premier League Darts, he made the quarter-finals of both the 2009 Las Vegas Desert Classic and 2009 UK Open Darts.

His best performance of the season came at the 2009 World Matchplay Darts where he lost in the final to Phil Taylor.

Jenkins' good form continued in the 2009 World Grand Prix Darts, reaching the semi-final, losing again to Taylor.

He got through to the semi-finals of the 2009 Grand Slam of Darts following a sensational 10–9 win over James Wade in the 2nd round and then defeated Robert Thornton in the quarter-finals before he was beaten in the semis by Scott Waites.

The defeat saw Sky Sports' pundit Rod Harrington heavily criticise Jenkins live on air for being a lazy exhibition player, comments Harrington had been making throughout the Premier League campaign, despite the fact that Jenkins was the third highest prize money earner in 2009.

As a result, Jenkins' entry into the 2010 Premier League Darts was guaranteed.

Jenkins made the third round of the 2010 PDC World Darts Championship, beating Paul Nicholson 3–2 in the first round, Darin Young 4–0 in the second round, before losing to Simon Whitlock 4–2 in the third round.

He made the second round of the 2010 Players Championship Finals where he gave Phil Taylor an almighty scare but narrowly lost a terrific match 8–7.

However, the 2010 Premier League Darts was the worst of his career so far with Jenkins finishing in last place.

His performances in floor tournaments turned out to be been less than impressive, having lost several early round matches to relatively unknown players.

Jenkins's poor form continued into the 2010 World Matchplay Darts with a 10–6 first round defeat to Steve Brown, who was ranked No 49 in the Order of Merit at the start of the match.

Jenkins reaction to those comments saw him reach the semi-final of the 2010 European Championship Darts, losing narrowly again to Phil Taylor in a classic 11–10, but showing a welcome return to form.

Jenkins had a decent 2010 Grand Slam of Darts, beating Tony O'Shea in the 2nd round before succumbing to a final leg decider to James Wade.

Following his Grand Slam of Darts quarter final defeat to Wade, Jenkins said in an interview that he believed players raise their game when they play him, as an example, Raymond van Barneveld struggled for form during the Premier League campaign, but managed to beat Jenkins twice and hit a nine darter against him.