Sean Reed

Sean Reed
Sean Reed
Personal information
Nickname	"The Silver Surfer"
Born	28 June 1965 (age 59); Isle of Wight, England
Home town	Sydney, Australia
Darts information
Playing darts since	1995
Darts	22g Puma Darts
Laterality	Right-handed
Walk-on music	"Rock and Roll" by Led Zeppelin
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO	2004–2009
PDC	2009–2012
PDC premier events – best performances
World Ch'ship	Last 64: 2012
Other tournament wins
Tournament	Years
Australia National Ch'ships; DPA Australian Matchplay; Mittagong RSL Open; Redcliffe Darts Open; Victoria Open; Warilla Bowls Club Open	2009; ; 2012; ; 2010; 2011, 2012; 2012; 2012
	Updated on 22 January 2019.

Sean Reed (born 28 June 1965) is an English-born Australian former professional darts player.

Career

Reed started playing darts at the age of 29. At the time, he was living in Japan, where he was working as an English language teacher. During his time in Japan, he won more than 60 state and national titles including four Grand Master Titles in '98, '99, '02, '03.

In 2004, Reed started playing soft-tip darts. He had moderate success picking up 16 titles over a three-year period. In 2007, he set an unofficial world record of more than 28,000 points scored in just one hour retrieving his own darts and operating the setting of the darts machine.

Reed qualified for the 2012 PDC World Darts Championship as the winner of the Australian Grand Prix series.^[1] In the first round, he played against Justin Pipe. Despite winning the first set, Reed lost the match 1–3.^[2]

In 2014, Reed became a co-founder and CEO of the International Target Darting Organization (I.T.D.O.).