"We were applying all these modern ideas. We were looking for talent, speed, aggression, tolerance to pressure, the quickness of the rondos. Everything that I hear spoken about now, we were doing it then, and I had 35 people there who were as crazy as I was. Clayton and Price may be taking all the headlines as far as Welsh darts is concerned but there are plenty more rising stars coming through and Williams is one of them. We check in with the 19-year-old as he prepares for his European Championship debut, leaving life as a barber behind and being inspired by two of the game's finest. "It was a different game...we're France, not Ireland," he said. "We have our own history that we've started two years ago. Our opponents won't be the same ones who were in Dublin. Ben Curtis arrived at his first Open, and his first major, as a 500-1 outsider. He left as the Champion Golfer of the year.