Colin Fowler

Colin Fowler (born 3 August 1962) is a former English professional darts player.

Colin Fowler
Personal information
Full name	Colin Fowler
Nickname	Robocol
Born	(1962-08-03) 3 August 1962 (age 62) Blackpool, Lancashire, England
Home town	Northfield, Birmingham
Darts information
Playing darts since	1987
Darts	23 gram Firefox
Laterality	Right-handed
Walk-on music	"Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO	1997–2012
PDC	2013–2017
WDF major events – best performances
World Masters	Last 24: 2011
PDC premier events – best performances
UK Open	Last 64: 2015
Other tournament wins
PDC Challenge Tour England 2014, 2014, 2014, 2015
Updated on 18 January 2019.

Career

Fowler reached the quarter-finals of a PDC event for the first time in his career at the opening UK Open Qualifier of 2013, where he lost 6–3 against Ronnie Baxter.^[1] He made his debut in the UK Open later in the year and was beaten 5–4 by Matt Padgett in the second round.^[2] In April 2014, Fowler won two Challenge Tour tournaments on the same day, winning a total of 14 consecutive matches and amassing £4,000 in prize money. He beat Mark Frost and Matt Clark in the two finals.^[3] Fowler also won the 15th event with a 6–3 victory over Dirk van Duijvenbode and finished third on the Challenge Tour Order of Merit, just £300 short of second place which would have seen him earn a two-year PDC tour card.^[4][5]

Fowler defeated Steve West 5–0 and Jason Wilson 5–3 at the 2015 UK Open, before losing 9–4 to David Pallett in the third round.^[6][7] He took the second Challenge Tour event of the year by beating Steve Maish 5–2.^[8] Fowler lost 5–3 to Rob Modra in the semi-finals of the second Challenge Tour of 2016.^[9] He only progressed to the last 16 once in the remaining 16 tournaments of the year.^[10]