Petri Korte

Petri Korte (born 12 December 1966) is a Finnish former professional darts player who played in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He was known for his highly unorthodox throwing action, where he uses his non-throwing hand as a guide by holding it up in front of him whilst throwing.

Petri Korte
Personal information
Nickname	"Kalle"
Born	(1966-12-12) 12 December 1966 (age 58) Lahti, Finland
Home town	Lahti, Finland
Darts information
Playing darts since	1990
Darts	17g Unicorn Phase 5
Laterality	Right-handed
Walk-on music	"Up Around the Bend" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO	2002–2011, 2014–2015
PDC	2012–2014, 2015–2018
WDF major events – best performances
World Masters	Last 64: 2002
PDC premier events – best performances
World Ch'ship	Last 64: 2012
Other tournament wins
PDC World Finland Qualifying Event 2011

Career

Korte attempted to qualify for the 2010 BDO World Darts Championship but lost in the final round of international qualifiers to Jan Dekker.

He won the Nordic Invitational Singles in 2011.^[1] Korte and Sami Sanssi lost in the 2011 BDO British Open Pairs final, 1–3, to Garry Thompson and Scott Waites.^[2]

He qualified for the 2012 PDC World Darts Championship, where he beat Per Laursen 4–3 (legs) in the preliminary round.^[3] He played world number 3, James Wade, in the first round. Korte went 0–2 down before pulling back a set and then had two darts to level the match. He missed and Wade wrapped up the match 3–1.^{[citation needed]}

Korte represented Finland with Marko Kantele in the 2012 PDC World Cup of Darts and together they were beaten 4–5 by Croatia in the first round.^[4] He lost in two quarter-finals on the Scandinavian tour in the rest of 2012 to finish 17th on the SDC Order of Merit.^[5][6]

World Championship results

PDC

• 2012: First round (lost to James Wade 1–3) (sets)