Richard Veenstra (born 10 July 1981) is a Dutch professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Veenstra previously participated in British Darts Organisation (BDO) and World Darts Federation (WDF) tournaments. He won 12 BDO/WDF singles titles, including in the 2019 Dutch Open and 2016 WDF Europe Cup. He was the runner-up at the 2019 BDO World Trophy and 2018 Finder Darts Masters.
Veenstra obtained a PDC Tour Card in 2023, and reached the last 32 in his PDC World Championship debut in 2024. He has reached five quarter-finals in Players Championship events.
He was also a two-time world championship semi-finalist at Lakeside, reaching the last four at the 2016 BDO World Championship and the 2022 WDF World Championship.
Career BDO/WDF In October 2014, Veenstra won the Luxembourg Open beating Mark Oosterhuis in the Final 6–4.2014 Luxembourg Open Results. DartsDatabase He reached the semi-finals of the 2015 Denmark Masters and England Open.2015 Denmark Masters Results. DartsDatabase2015 England Open Results. DartsDatabase In October 2015, he won WDF World Cup Pairs with Wesley Harms to beat Scott Mitchell and Mark McGeeney 6–3.2015 WDF World Cup Pairs Results. DartsDatabase On his debut at the 2016 BDO World Darts Championship, Veenstra caused an upset beating compatriot and third seed Jeffrey de Graaf 3–2 in the first round, before beating English player Martin Atkins comfortably 4–0 in the second round. Veenstra then defeated defending champion Scott Mitchell 5–3 to reach the semi-finals, which he narrowly lost to Jeff Smith 6–5.
In September 2016, Veenstra won the WDF Europe Cup singles by beating Jim Williams in the final 7–5, averaging 93.18. In September 2018, he won both the BDO British Open and BDO British Classic in the same weekend.
At the 2022 WDF World Darts Championship, Veenstra recorded the highest three dart average in the venue's history with 104.91, to defeat Luke Littler 3–0 in the last 16. In the quarter-final he almost achieved a nine-dart finish en route to a 4–2 victory against Brian Raman, but missed double 12. Veenstra was defeated in his semi-final match against Neil Duff, losing 5–2.
PDC At 2023 European Q-School, Veenstra secured a PDC tour card for the 2023 and 2024 seasons by finishing second on the European Q-School Order of Merit.
Veenstra enjoyed a run to the third round at the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship in his tournament debut year. Having defeated Ben Robb and the seeded Kim Huybrechts, he fell to a 0–4 whitewash defeat to Dutch compatriot Michael van Gerwen.
World Championship results
BDO 2016: Semi-finals (lost to Jeff Smith 5–6) 2017: Second round (lost to Danny Noppert 0–4) 2018: Quarter-finals (lost to Michael Unterbuchner 4–5) 2019: Second round (lost to Scott Waites 1–4) 2020: Second round (lost to David Evans 2–4)
WDF 2022: Semi-finals (lost to Neil Duff 2–5)
PDC 2024: Third round (lost to Michael van Gerwen 0–4) 2025: First round (lost to Alexis Toylo 0–3) 2026: First round (lost to Nitin Kumar 2–3)
Career finals
BDO major finals: 2 Legend Zuiderduin Masters (0–1) BDO World Trophy (0–1) Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final Score(l) = score in legs, (s) = score in sets.Runner-up1.2018Zuiderduin Masters Glen Durrant 3–5 (s)Runner-up2.2019BDO World Trophy Jim Williams 6–8 (l)
Performance timeline BDO Tournament 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020BDO Ranked televised events DNQ SF 2R QF 2R 2R World TrophyDNQ 1R 1RDNP FNH World Masters L80 L16 L32 L32 L16 L32NH Zuiderduin Masters RR RRRRRR FNH
WDF Tournament 2022WDF Ranked televised events World Championship SF World Masters L32
PDC Tournament 2019 2023 2024 2025 2026PDC Ranked televised events BDODNQ 3R 1R 1R World MastersDNQ Prel. Prel. UK OpenDNQ 3R 4R 3R 4R Grand Slam RRDNQ DNQ 2R 1R 2RCareer statisticsSeason-end ranking (PDC)NR714757
PDC European Tour Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 2021HDT2RGDTDNQ 2023BSD2RDid not qualifyBDO1RCDO1RDid not qualifyHDT1RGDCDNQ 2024BDO2RGDG2RIDO3REDGDNQADO2RDid not qualifyFDT1RHDTDNQSDT2RCDODNQ 2025BDODNQEDTDNQIDO2RDid not qualifyEDO1RBSD1RFDTDNQCDO1RHDT2RSDT2RGDCDNQ 2026PDODNQEDTQFDid not qualifyBSD1RDid not qualifyDDC
PDC Players Championships Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 2021Not a Tour card holder DNPBAR1RBAR1RBAR1R 2023BAR3R BARQFBAR4RBAR2RBAR2RBAR4RHIL2RHIL2RWIG2RWIG2RLEI1RLEI3RHIL1RHIL4RLEI1RLEI1RHIL2RHILQFBAR2RBAR2RBAR3RBAR3RBAR3RBAR1RBAR1RBAR1RBAR1RBAR1RBAR3RBAR4R 2024WIG2RWIG1RLEI2RLEI3RHIL2RHIL3RLEI1RLEI1RHIL4RHIL3RHIL1RHILQFMIL1RMIL1RMIL1RMIL1RMIL2RMIL2RMIL1RWIG4RWIG1RMIL3RMIL2RWIG3RWIG1RWIG1RWIG2RWIG3RLEI3RLEI2R 2025WIGQFWIG1RROS2RROS1RLEI1RLEI1RHIL3RHIL2RLEI1RLEI1RLEI2RLEI1RROS1RROS2RHIL1RHIL1RLEIQFLEI1RLEI1RLEI1RLEI1RHIL1RHIL1RMIL1RMIL2RHIL2RHILQFLEI4RLEI1RLEI1RWIG4RWIG2RWIG4RWIG1R 2026HIL1RHIL1RWIG2RWIG1RLEI3RLEI3RLEI1RLEI4RWIGQFWIG2RMIL1RMIL2RHIL2RHILQFLEI3RLEI1RLEI1RLEI1RMIL3RMILSFWIG3RWIG3RLEIDNPLEI2RHIL3RHIL4RLEI2RLEI3RROS2RROS3RROSROSLEILEI
References
External links Richard Veenstra's profile and stats on Darts Database