to 2–2. He was still in the top 32 after the Tournament. After the 2015 UK Open, he went out of the top 32. Part failed to qualify for the 2016 World Championship. This is the first time Part failed to qualify for the event after 22 consecutive years in the tournament. 2017–present: Hall of Fame and televised return In January 2017, Part was inducted into the PDC Hall of Fame. He was the fourteenth inductee and the first from outside of the United Kingdom – fitting with his World Championship victories. The award acknowledged his achievements, his contributions as a commentator and pundit, and gentlemanly conduct throughout his career. In the same month, he entered the PDC Qualifying School to gain a tour card having fallen out of the world's top 64. Part won through on the third day; beating Kirk Shepherd at the final stage in a rematch of the 2008 World Championship final. In March 2017, Part returned to Unicorn darts after switching to Cosmo darts, joining fellow World Champions for the company Gary Anderson, John Lowe and Bob Anderson. His success in Qualifying School did not transfer to his 2017 season, where he failed to progress beyond the last 32 stage of a singles event, taking just £2,250 in prize money in the calendar year. His best showing of the year was at the World Cup of Darts, where he lost in the second round to the Austrian team with his partner, John Norman Jr. Competing in the six qualifiers for the 2018 UK Open, Part reached the last 32 stage of the fourth event. The £750 prize money for this was enough for him to qualify as one of the 128 players to take part in the televised stages of the tournament, his first since the 2015 UK Open three years previously. He beat two amateur qualifiers in the first two rounds of the tournament, and followed those wins up with wins over David Evans, Ron Meulenkamp and Mervyn King to reach his first televised quarter final since the 2012 Grand Slam of Darts, and his first quarter-final in any PDC event since the 2014 Austrian Darts Open. He lost at the quarter-final stage to Robert Owen. The £11,500 prize money he collected for this result is his highest earnings from a single event since the 2013 PDC UK Masters, also held at Butlin's Minehead.