Mitchell Lawrie, 15, targets £501,000 prize in live Littler challenge

Fifteen-year-old Mitchell Lawrie is among 24 amateur darts players who will each get a chance to win £501,000 by beating world champion Luke Littler in a single leg of 501 during a live Netflix special on Friday.

The first player to defeat Littler ends the competition and claims the prize. The event will be broadcast from Manchester Central Convention Complex.

Lawrie, from Renfrew, told BBC Radio Scotland Breakfast that he was excited but expected nerves. “Being live on Netflix at 15 years of age is just something else,” he said.

He has beaten Littler before as part of a Scotland team. Lawrie recalled that Scotland defeated England 4-3 in a deciding leg at the 2023 junior darts World Cup in Gibraltar, and went on to win the tournament.

Lawrie was crowned WDF Open Youth World Champion last year. He said he began taking darts seriously about three and a half years ago, having first played as a toddler after his grandfather mounted a board on a chair.