Forwood and Whitlock - Australia's
Number One for 2005
 Carol Forwood (pictured right) claimed the number one ladies darts player status in Australia for the first time at the end of 2005. This has been an outstanding performance by Forwood winning ten DFA Ranked events, including her States Singles title. Her success has not been limited to victories in her home State of New South Wales either, winning in Victoria and the ACT. She had a strong consistent year in 2005, which also saw her make the final of the Pacific Masters which included many of the players representing their country at the World Cup in Perth losing to Scotland's Anne Kirk. She received DFA Ranking Points in thirteen darts tournaments she contested in 2005, the biggest being the Central Coast Classic. Carol also finished in the top ten of the WDF Rankings and just missed out on gaining an invitation to Lakeside for the World Professional Darts Championships in the UK.
Dot McLeod was unable to retain her number one ranking title which she had won back last year. McLeod has had another outstanding year though, representing Australia at the World Cup in Perth and winning the Australian Singles and Australian Grand Masters titles. She had a big finish in 2004 by winning the Alice Springs Open and Golden Nugget in the Northern Territory to give her the number one spot, but she was unable to attend this year.
In 2005 Forwood won the ranking race from Western Australian Dot McLeod by just six points and another WA player Natalie Carter in third place. Carter also had a great year winning two titles in her home State and was also a finalist in three others. This was a big improvement on 2004, jumping up from tenth place. Tassies Helen Johnson finished of the year in fourth place down from third in 2004 with three tournament wins in Tasmania throughout the year
Top 10:
1. FORWOOD, Carol NSW 91.0
2. McLEOD, Dot WA 85.0
3. CARTER, Natalie WA 65.0
4. JOHNSTON, Helen TAS 64.0
5. CASSAR, Janine VIC 63.0
6. HADLEY, Joanne VIC 60.0
7. TONKIN, Marg SA 56.0
8. SMITH, Sandra TAS 54.0
9. BROADBENT, Lillian WA 53.0
10. NOLAN, Marg TAS 51.0
 Once again Queenslander Simon Whitlock (pictured left) has had a very busy year in 2005. He finishes the year Australia's number one ranked male player. This year has seen Simon do some serious travelling playing in five states and a trip to England for the Lakeside World Professional Darts Championships (UK), World Darts Trophy (Netherlands) as well. He is again heading off overseas shortly to get ready to contest the 2006 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championships starting January 7th. He had a great year in winning the Australian Grand Masters and his State Singles again, and Central Coast Classic. He missed out on backing up on the Australian Singles and the Pacific Masters, which included many of the players representing their country at the World Cup in Perth
WA's Graham Hunt finished up the year in the number two spot, up six places on 2004. He had a consistent year winning the State Singles and also winning a place in the Australian Team for the World Cup. Last year's number two Anthony Fleet dropped down to the number three spot. He also represented Australia at the World Cup and won his State Singles. He also had three other tournament wins in 2005 in the ACT and NSW. Mick Mullaney moved up two spaces to number three, while Tony David finished in at number five after a strong return to the dart scene in 2005 along with spending many weeks overseas.
Top 10:
1 WHITLOCK, Simon QLD 99.5
2 HUNT, Graham WA 73.5
3 FLEET, Anthony ACT 70.0
4 MULLANEY, Mick ACT 68.0
5 DAVID, Tony WA 67.5
6 CADBY, Fred TAS 67.0
7 JOUANNET, Barry NSW 63.0
8 ROACH, Brian NSW 57.5
9 DUKE, Steven Snr VIC 54.0
10 COMITO, Joe WA 49.0
Congratulations to both of you on a fantastic year.
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