Jeff Smith continues climb up the BDO rankings with run to semi-finals in the Virginia Beach Classic

By Alex Moss
31 MARCH 2017 • 4:11PM

Canada’s Jeff Smith continued his push towards the top 32 in the BDO Men’s Rolling Rankings with a run to the semi-finals of the Virginia Beach Classic last weekend.

The former BDO World Championship finalist was the only player from the current top 40 to take part in the tournament over in North America, and picked up 12 ranking points for getting to the last four of the event.

Smith is now up to 38th place in the Men’s Rolling Rankings, and is now just 11 points adrift of Bradley Kirk and Jeffrey Sparidaans, who are tied in 31st spot.

Smith’s ranking points have mostly come from playing in tournaments in North America, with his appearances in the World Championship and World Masters the only events away from his home continent which he has picked up ranking points in.

Reigning BDO world champion Glen Durrant remains top of the pile on 420 points, a healthy 80 points clear of Jamie Hughes in second place.

Dutch Open champion Mark McGeeney, former world champion Scott Mitchell and Welsh ace Dean Reynolds complete the current top five.

BDO Men’s Rolling Rankings (as of March 28, 2017)

Pos	Player	Pts
1	Glen Durrant	420
2	Jamie Hughes	340
3	Mark McGeeney	328
4	Scott Mitchell	314
5	Dean Reynolds	299
6	Danny Noppert	267
=	Wesley Harms	267
8	Darryl Fitton	263
9	Scott Waites	257
10	Darius Labanauskas	255
=	Ross Montgomery	255
12	Martin Phillips	244
13	Nick Kenny	241
14	Martin Adams	239
15	Geert de Vos	236
16	Richard Veenstra	209
17	Jim Williams	197
18	Brian Dawson	196
=	Wouter Vaes	196
20	James Hurrell	185
21	Willem Mandigers	180
22	Conan Whitehead	178
23	Andy Fordham	176
24	Kyle McKinstry	159
25	Richie Edwards	158
26	Gary Robson	157
27	Ryan Joyce	156
28	Tony O’Shea	147
29	Martin C Atkins	146
30	Scott Baker	144
31	Bradley Kirk	140
=	Jeffrey Sparidaans	140
33	Andy Baetens	139
=	Shaun Carroll	139
35	David Cameron	136
=	Martin Atkins	136
37	Cameron Menzies	130
38	Jeff Smith	129
39	Pip Blackwell	127
40	Wayne Warren	124