fellow PDC player Steve Grubb. The couple have a son Tai (born 2014), and in October 2017 welcomed a baby girl. Regulars at the Wellington Arms included former world champions, Trina Gulliver and Mark Webster. After handing over running of the pub in 2016 to a new manager to allow Anderson to fully commit to his darts career, the family have since resided in Burnham on Sea, Somerset. Anderson's father Gordon died in March 2012. Anderson is a supporter of Scottish football club Hibernian. Having initially gone under the moniker 'Dreamboy' earlier in his darts career, Anderson is now known as 'The Flying Scotsman' (after the train of the same name), having adopted the nickname after it was passed on to him by Scottish darts legend Jocky Wilson in 2009. Statistics World Championship results BDO 2002: First round (lost to Stefan Nagy 0–3) 2003: Semi-finals (lost to Ritchie Davies 2–5) 2004: First round (lost to Tony O'Shea 0–3) 2005: First round (lost to Raymond van Barneveld 0–3) 2006: Second round (lost to Raymond van Barneveld 1–4) 2007: First round (lost to Albertino Essers 1–3) 2008: First round (lost to Fabian Roosenbrand 2–3) 2009: Quarter-finals (lost to Tony O'Shea 3–5) PDC 2010: Second round (lost to Ronnie Baxter 0–4) 2011: Runner-up (lost to Adrian Lewis 5–7) 2012: Quarter-finals (lost to Simon Whitlock 1–5) 2013: Third round (lost to Raymond van Barneveld 0–4) 2014: Third round (lost to Michael van Gerwen 3–4) 2015: Winner (beat Phil Taylor 7–6) 2016: Winner (beat Adrian Lewis 7–5) 2017: Runner-up (lost to Michael van Gerwen 3–7) 2018: Quarter-finals (lost to Phil Taylor 3–5) 2019: Semi-finals (lost to Michael van Gerwen 1–6) 2020: Fourth round (lost to Nathan Aspinall 2–4) 2021: Runner-up (lost to Gerwyn Price 3–7) 2022: Semi-finals (lost to Peter Wright 4–6) 2023: Third round (lost to Chris Dobey 1–4) Career finals BDO major finals: 4 (4 titles) PDC major finals: 21 (8 titles, 13 runners-up) PDC world series finals: 7 (6 titles, 1 runner-up) PDC team finals: 3 (1 title, 2 runners-up) Performance timeline BDO PDC PDC European Tour WDF Majors Nine-dart finishes Awards PDC Awards Anderson has received eight awards at the annual PDC Awards Dinner. |- | align="center"| 2012 ||rowspan=5|Gary Anderson|| PDC Best Pro Tour Player || |- | rowspan=4, align="center"| 2015 ||PDC Player of the Year|| |- |PDPA Players' Player of the Year || |- | PDC Fans' Player of the