Scott MacKenzie

Education

University of Kent.

Career

He has represented Hong Kong on numerous occasions (in both steel tip and soft tip darts), including captaining the Hong Kong team at the 2008 Asia Pacific Cup in New Zealand. He became the first player from Hong Kong to qualify for a World Darts Championship. MacKenzie qualified for his second successive Personal Digital Cellular World Championship in 2012 after defeating Royden Lam in the Personal Digital Cellular Greater China Qualifier final.

He beat Paul Barham 4-2 in the best of seven legs preliminary round match to make it through to the last 64 for the first time.

He played former World quarter-finalist, Wayne Jones, and was beaten 1-3. In the rest of 2012 he lost in the quarter-finals of the Pacific Masters to Tony Carmichael and was also defeated in the semi-finals of the WDF Asia-Pacific Cup and Hong Kong Open.

MacKenzie made his debut in the World Cup of Darts in June 2014 as he represented Hong Kong with Royden Lam. They defeated Norway 5–2 in the first round to face Australia in the second round.

Lam lost his singles match against Simon Whitlock, before MacKenzie saw off Paul Nicholson to mean a doubles match was required to settle the tie, which Hong Kong were whitewashed in 4–0.

MacKenzie reached the final of the 2015 World Championship PDPA qualifier and lost 5–2 to Jason Hogg. Gurney levelled the match at 3–3, before MacKenzie missed a dart at double 11 to complete a 142 finish and was defeated 4–3. MacKenzie and Lam caused a couple of shocks at the World Cup.

First they defeated Wales" Mark Webster and Jamie Lewis 5–3.

Lam then beat Ireland"s William O"Connor 4–1, but MacKenzie missed six match darts against Connie Finnan from 3–0 up to lose 4–3 meaning a doubles match was needed to settle the tie. lieutenant went to the final leg in which MacKenzie finished 86 to send Hong Kong into the quarter-finals.

MacKenzie claimed the 2015 Hong Kong Open by beating Alex Honorary Personal Digital Cellular

2011: Preliminary round (lost to Jyhan Artut 3–4) (legs)

2012: First round (lost to Wayne Jones 1–3)

2015: Preliminary round (lost to Daryl Gurney 3–4) (legs).

Achievements

• MacKenzie won the Personal Digital Cellular Greater China Qualifier, defeating Alex Honorary in the final, to qualify for the 2011 Personal Digital Cellular World Darts Championship. He played Germany"s Jyhan Artut in the preliminary round, and missed two darts to win the match before losing 3-4. He entered the Personal Digital Cellular Qualifying School in an attempt to win a 2-year tour card but could not advance beyond the last 128 on any of the four days. However, it was enough to earn him a spot in the preliminary round of the event where he raced into a 3–0 lead over Daryl Gurney and missed one dart to win 4–0. However, number two seeds Scotland proved to be too much as Gary Anderson and Peter Wright won both their singles matches 4–2 to eliminate Hong Kong.

Membership

He was also a member of the 2010 Asia Pacific Cup in Japan.