Greaves has already won the table and needs nothing from it
Beau Greavessits on £34,700 after 20 events, £17,650 clear of Lisa Ashton. Four titles is the ceiling for any one player across a weekend of four tournaments, and four titles pay £10,000 — so the 2026 Women’s Series Order of Merit was mathematically settled before anyone threw a dart in Wigan.
Winning it buys her nothing. The table hands its top player a Grand Slam place and its top three World Championship places, in both cases only to players who have not qualified by another route. Greaves took the Women’s World Matchplay title in Blackpool in July, beating Fallon Sherrock 6-5 in a deciding leg, and that win carries its own places at both Wolverhampton and Alexandra Palace. She is already in. Every prize the Order of Merit awards therefore steps over the top of it.
That makes her entry the quiet subplot of the weekend, because every £2,500 she takes is £2,500 removed from the pool the players chasing the places need. She has form for picking and choosing: she sat out the Saturday in Leicester in August, when Ashton and Sherrock shared the two titles, then came back to win both Sunday events. A PDC eligibility rule hangs over it too: players inside the top 64 of the PDC Order of Merit on an event’s cut-off date cannot enter the Women’s Series at all, and Greaves has spent the season climbing that ranking.
Who is still in the three places?
Because Greaves is skipped, the three World Championship places fall to second, third and fourth on the final table. That is the line the PDC’s own report on Events 19 and 20 identified in August, with Ashton and Sherrock second and third and Gemma Hayter fourth, holding the last of them.
| # | Player | Prize money | Behind 3rd |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beau Greaves | £34,700 | — |
| 2 | Lisa Ashton | £17,050 | — |
| 3 | Fallon Sherrock | £11,650 | — |
| 4 | Gemma Hayter | £9,100 | £2,550 |
| 5 | Deta Hedman | £7,300 | £4,350 |
| 6 | Vicky Pruim | £7,250 | £4,400 |
| 7 | Trina Gulliver | £5,600 | £6,050 |
| 8 | Jade Gofford | £5,500 | £6,150 |
| 9 | Rhian O'Sullivan | £5,500 | £6,150 |
| 10 | Karolina Ratajska | £5,450 | £6,200 |
Ashton is safe, and the arithmetic says so rather than the form book. To push her out of the top four, three players other than Greaves would each have to finish above her £17,050. Only four can reach that figure at all: Sherrock needs £5,401, Hayter £7,951, Deta Hedman £9,751 and Vicky Pruim £9,801. Hedman and Pruim can only get there by winning all four events, which cannot be true of both of them, and the other two need multiple titles of their own. There are four titles in the building. Three players cannot share them in the amounts required — which is why the published 2026/27 qualifier lists already carry Ashton’s name.
Third place is where the weekend actually lives. Sherrock holds it on £11,650 with Hayter £2,550 back — a gap one title and a semi-final appearance covers, with change. Behind them, Hedman and Pruim are only £1,800 and £1,850 off Hayter, so a single Saturday title lifts either of them past her and into the frame.
Bars are scaled against £10,000, the maximum a player can earn from four events. Source: dartsrankings.com / DartsNews standings after Event 20; PDPA prize breakdown.
The £10,000 ceiling also sets the elimination line, and it sits a long way down. A player needs at least £1,651 banked to still be capable of passing Sherrock’s £11,650, which means everyone in the published top 25 — the 25th-placed player is on £2,800 — remains mathematically alive for the last place. Alive is not the same as likely: it takes something close to a clean sweep from outside the top six. But nobody near the top of this table is playing a dead weekend.
The Grand Slam place nobody is watching
The World Championship places have had the attention. The Grand Slam place is the one still genuinely open at the top of the table. It goes to one player — the highest finisher who has not already qualified — and with Greaves out of the reckoning that is a straight fight between Ashton and Sherrock, with Hayter a long shot.
Ashton leads that sub-race by £5,400. Sherrock has to out-earn her by £5,401 across four events in which Ashton is also throwing, and Hayter by £7,951. The difference matters: the Grand Slam runs from 14 to 22 November at WV Active Aldersley in Wolverhampton, a 48-player televised field playing for £1,000,000, and it is a tournament the Women’s Series supplies exactly one entrant to.
How the money works
Each event is worth £15,000 and is drawn open, with no seeds. Matches are best of seven legs to the last eight, then best of nine from the quarter-finals onwards, which is why a deep run matters more than a kind draw: the money steps up slowly and then jumps.
| Stage | Players | Each |
|---|---|---|
| Winner | 1 | £2,500 |
| Runner-up | 1 | £1,000 |
| Semi-finalists | 2 | £750 |
| Quarter-finalists | 4 | £500 |
| Last 16 | 8 | £300 |
| Last 32 | 16 | £200 |
| Last 64 | 32 | £75 |
One line in that table has a condition attached. The £75 for reaching the last 64 is paid only when at least 128 players enter, so in a smaller field the bottom half of the draw plays for nothing but ranking position — and ranking position, this weekend, is the whole point.
It also decides a quieter prize. The top eight on the final table who do not hold a Tour Card get free entry to the 2027 Qualifying School, and that line is currently a dead heat: Jade Gofford and Rhian O’Sullivan are level on £5,500 in eighth and ninth, with Karolina Ratajska £50 further back. A single last-64 cheque is worth £75. One result in Wigan separates all three.
What happens after Sunday
The final table is published once Event 24 finishes, and the names on it feed straight into two fields that are still being assembled — the Grand Slam in five weeks and Alexandra Palace in nine. You can follow the Women’s Series Order of Merit as the four events are played.