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2008 World Masters (darts)

darts tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ4612291 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2008 Winmau World Masters was the fourth major tournament on the BDO/WDF calendar for 2008. It took place from 5–7 December in the Bridlington Spa Royal Hall. Martin Adams beat Scott Waites in the final to take his first Masters title and join an elite list of players to win both the World Championship and the Masters in their career.

Prize money

The total prize money was £50,000.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2008 World Masters (darts)” is darts tournament. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through World, Masters and darts, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, World, Masters and darts is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “2008 World Masters (darts)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.