{"id":7320,"date":"2015-11-10T19:20:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T19:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=7320"},"modified":"2015-11-10T19:20:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T19:20:25","slug":"cardiff-pub-owners-son-play-world-darts-championship-lakeside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2015\/11\/10\/cardiff-pub-owners-son-play-world-darts-championship-lakeside\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff pub owners&#039; son to play in World Darts Championship at Lakeside"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7325\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7325\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/11922788_10207839821019389_5317820199867692460_o-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7325\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/11922788_10207839821019389_5317820199867692460_o-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Dean Reynolds (middle) winning the French Open in Bray-Dunes in August\" width=\"740\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7325\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/11922788_10207839821019389_5317820199867692460_o-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Dean Reynolds (middle) winning the French Open in Bray-Dunes in August\" width=\"740\" height=\"300\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Dean Reynolds (middle) with tournament organisers after winning the French Open in Bray-Dunes in August<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">THE owners of The Birchgrove pub will watch their son compete in the British Darts Organisation (BDO) World Darts Championship at Lakeside in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">Tim and Pauline Reynolds have run the north Cardiff pub for 13 years and raised their son Dean in the pub environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">Dean started playing for the pub\u2019s darts team aged just 13. Now 23, he is going to play in the BDO&#8217;s biggest darts tournament against the number one ranked player Glen Durrant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">The event is covered by the BBC and has been held at the prestigious Lakeside in Surrey since 1986. Dean has played at the venue before, but never in a tournament of this stature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">Before The Birchgrove, Mr and Mrs Reynolds ran The Cornwall pub in Grangetown where Dean lived until he was ten.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7329\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1974.12209.venueImage-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7329\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1974.12209.venueImage-copy.jpg\" alt=\"The Birchgrove pub\" width=\"740\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7329\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1974.12209.venueImage-copy.jpg\" alt=\"The Birchgrove pub\" width=\"740\" height=\"300\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> The Birchgrove pub<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">Mrs Reynolds said: \u201cFrom virtually the day he could stand up he started playing darts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">\u201cWhen he was 18 months old on the balcony in Gran Canaria, he lined up all the empty bottles and threw toothbrushes at them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">\u201cI told his father we had\u00a0a darts player, he said \u2018no he\u2019s not, he\u2019s going to play rugby!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">\u201cWe don\u2019t see him as often as we would like, but I know he wants to be number one in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">Dean rose to number 18 in the BDO rankings when he won the French Open in August. After winning, he was invited to play in the World Championships which start on January 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">The 23-year-old played for the Glamorgan youth team at 11, Wales youth at 17 and then the full Glamorgan county team after that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">Dean said: \u201cGetting picked for the Wales youth team in 2010 was the best feeling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">\u201cI think it took about 30 seconds of the national anthem to make me cry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">\u201cLiving in The Cornwall and The Birchgrove was the main reason I started playing darts. It was the last sport I took up seriously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">\u201cI played for Cardiff City football until under 16s and played rugby to quite a high level at Whitchurch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">\u201cBut I would come home from training and then I would play darts with my brother and there were just people playing all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">Dean moved to Guildford in Surrey two years ago and is now a sports coach there. He has always hoped to make a living from darts and feels this is his time to do it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">He said: \u201cNow that I have had a little taste of success, I would like to become a professional darts player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">Qualifying for the 2017 World Championships has already begun. He will travel to Belgium in two weeks time for the Sunparks Masters before going to Lakeside in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE owners of The Birchgrove pub will watch their son compete in the British Darts Organisation (BDO) World Darts Championship at Lakeside in January. Tim and Pauline Reynolds have run the north Cardiff pub for 13 years and raised their son Dean in the pub environment. Dean started playing for the pub\u2019s darts team aged just 13. Now 23, he is going to play in the BDO&#8217;s biggest darts tournament against the number one ranked player Glen Durrant. 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