Career
His performances helped him progress to the third round of the 2004 United Kingdom Open automatically where he narrowly lost 8-7 to Andy Jenkins. He then reached a semi final in the Midlands Regional for the 2005 United Kingdom Open as he entered the third round automatically once more, losing to Roland Scholten. He followed this with a quarter final showing in the Open Holland.
Barnard started his 2006 United Kingdom Open campaign in the second round, beating Nigel Langton 8-1.
He then beat Lee Palfreyman in the third round to reach the fourth round for the very first time. He was drawn against Ronnie Baxter and lost 11-7.
Poor form forced Barnard to begin his 2007 United Kingdom Open campaign in the first round where he beat Vernon Shepherd but lost in the second round to Paul Williams. He then lost in the Preliminary Round in the 2008 United Kingdom Open, losing to Paul Cooper.
Besides from the United Kingdom Open, Barnard had failed to qualify for any of the other Personal Digital Cellular majors.
He was beaten by Andy Hamilton in round one. Having finished the 2011 season ranked too low to retain his Personal Digital Cellular tour card automatically, Barnard entered the Personal Digital Cellular Q School in January 2012. On the second day Barnard earned his tour card for 2012 and 2013 by beating John Bowles 6-2 in the final stage.
In May 2012, Barnard earned a place in the German Darts Championship in Berlin by defeating Adrian Gray and James Richardson in the United Kingdom qualifier.
He received a bye through the first round when Gary Anderson withdrew and then lost to Company Stompé in round two 6–5. He reached the last 32 of three other ProTour events during 2012, but could never advance beyond this stage.
Barnard went into 2013 ranked world number 77. He reached the main stage of two European Tour events during the year, the first being a 6–2 opening round defeat to Andy Smith at the German Darts Championship.
The other was at the Dutch Darts Masters where Barnard defeated Stuart Kellett 6–3 and Kevin Painter 6–4 to record his best finish of 2013 by reaching the last 16.
He faced world number two Michael van Gerwen and was defeated 6–1. Barnard was beaten 5–1 by Stuart Kellett in the second round of the 2014 United Kingdom Open. He qualified for the Dutch Darts Masters and lost 6–5 to Vincent van der Voort in the first round.
Barnard reached the last 32 of Pro Tour events three times during the year but was knocked out on each occasion.
He participated in the 2015 German Darts Championship, but was knocked out 6–5 by Joe Murnan in the opening round. Barnard"s deepest run in 2015 came at the 15th Players Championship where he was eliminated in the last 16 6–5 by Devon Petersen.
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2009: First round (lost to Andy Hamilton 0–3).
