Greaves won all four, and the record came in the third
Greaves took Events 21 and 22 on the Saturday and Events 23 and 24 on the Sunday, beating a different opponent in every final. Pruim pushed her hardest in the first of them, losing 5-3 after taking Lisa Ashton out 5-4 earlier in the day; Greaves closed that one with a 13-darter. Event 22 went the same way against Gemma Hayter, and only after she had come back from 3-1 down against Ashton in the last 32.
| Event | Beaten in the final | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Event 21 | Vicky Pruim | 5-3 |
| Event 22 | Gemma Hayter | 5-3 |
| Event 23 | Jade Gofford | 5-3 |
| Event 24 | Aurora Fochesato | 5-2 |
The record arrived on Sunday afternoon. Winning Event 23 took seven matches, and Greaves averaged 98.75 across all seven — the highest event-winning average in Women’s Series history. The two titles were her 62nd and 63rd on the series and her 16th and 17th of 2026, from the 22 events she entered; she sat out Events 17 and 18 in Leicester in August, which is when Ashton and Sherrock shared the titles.
Jade Gofford and Aurora Fochesato, the Italian who lost the last final 5-2, both reached a Women’s Series final for the first time. Gofford’s runner-up cheque in Event 23 also settled a side contest our preview had flagged as a dead heat: she and Rhian O’Sullivan were level on £5,500 going into the weekend, and she finished seventh on £7,100.
Why the Women’s Series handed out four World Championship places
Our preview on Wednesdaysaid three places were at stake, which is what the criteria normally supply: three to the top three finishers who have not qualified by another method, plus one to the Women’s World Matchplay champion. The PDC guarantees a minimum of four women in the 128-player field that way.
It came out at four Series places, not three, and the reason is Greaves. She won the Women’s World Matchplayin Blackpool in July and she has topped the Women’s Series since February, so on paper she holds two of the four women’s places on her own. She needs neither. Greaves is set to qualify through the one-year PDC Pro Tour rankings instead — the open list, the same one the men come through — and the published 2027 qualification criteria therefore pass two additional places down the Women’s Series table. The Series allocation runs from second to fifth: Ashton, Fallon Sherrock, Hayter, Pruim.
That makes five women with places for Alexandra Palace rather than the guaranteed four. One caveat worth keeping: the Pro Tour list does not close until the Players Championship Finalsat the end of November, so Greaves’ own route is the last of the five to be formally settled even though the places below her have already been awarded on the strength of it.
The last place turned on £50 — then on £1,900
Sherrock and Hayter were confirmed on the Saturday. Ashton was safe before anyone threw. The fourth Series place was the live one, and going into the weekend it belonged to Deta Hedman by £50 — £7,300 to Pruim’s £7,250, the narrowest margin anywhere near the cut.
Hedman did not add a pound across four events. Pruim added £1,950, the bulk of it from the runner-up cheque in Event 21 and a semi-final in Event 24. A £50 deficit became a £1,900 lead, and the place Greaves had effectively created by qualifying elsewhere went to the player who was sixth when the weekend started.
| # | Player | Final | Won in Wigan |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beau Greaves | £44,700 | £10,000 |
| 2 | Lisa Ashton | £18,700 | £1,650 |
| 3 | Fallon Sherrock | £14,150 | £2,500 |
| 4 | Gemma Hayter | £11,400 | £2,300 |
| 5 | Vicky Pruim | £9,200 | £1,950 |
| 6 | Deta Hedman | £7,300 | — |
| 7 | Jade Gofford | £7,100 | £1,600 |
Bars scaled against £10,000, the maximum available from four events. Derived from the final standings against the published figures after Event 20. Source: Wikipedia / Dartfreakz; dartsrankings.com.
Greaves’ £10,000 is the ceiling — four titles at £2,500 is all there was to win — and it is also the clearest measure of what she took off the table. Every event she entered removed £2,500 from a pool the players chasing places needed, and she entered all four.
Pruim’s place is a first for Sweden: no Swedish woman has played the PDC World Darts Championship before. She has a 2026 title of her own, Event 12 in Leicester in May, where she beat Hayter 5-1.
What Ashton’s second place is worth
Second on the final table carries more than an Alexandra Palace place. The Women’s Series also supplies one entrant to the Grand Slam of Darts, and it goes to its leading finisher who is not already qualified. Greaves is in through the Matchplay win, so the place falls to Ashton — the outcome the arithmetic pointed to on Wednesday, when she led Sherrock by £5,400 in that sub-race and finished £4,550 clear of her.
That is one name into a 48-player televised field in Wolverhampton from 14 to 22 November, alongside Greaves. Our running list of Grand Slam qualifiers has the rest of the field as it fills.
What happens next
The season is done: 24 events from Hildesheim in February to Wigan in October, and a final table that will not change again. The names on it now feed two fields — Wolverhampton in five weeks, Alexandra Palace in nine — and a quieter prize, free entry to the 2027 Qualifying School for the top eight finishers who do not already hold a Tour Card.
The open question is whether Greaves plays the Women’s Series at all in 2027. Players inside the top 64 of the PDC Order of Merit on an event’s cut-off date cannot enter, and she has spent the season climbing it — which is the same climb that has her qualifying for Alexandra Palace off the Pro Tour list rather than out of the table she has just won by £26,000. You can follow the Women’s Series Order of Merit as the 2027 season opens.