Gerwyn Price is a handy snooker player as well as being a world-class darts star (Image: Getty)
Darts star showed his prowess for – and showed up in the process – by hitting a 147 break. Former PDC world champion Price is handy on the baize and has a full-sized table in his impressive man cave at his home in south Wales.
The Iceman plays snooker regularly, revealing in an interview before the 2025 that his highest break was 108. Speaking to he quipped: “I won’t do a Shaun Murphy and lie about having a 147!”
Murphy, who faces Mark Allen in the Masters semi-final on Saturday, claims to have completed the unique hat-trick of a maximum break, a nine-dart finish and a hole-in-one on the golf course – a boast doubted by many.
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“I got my nine-darter in the Carter’s Arms in Sale in Manchester, and I made the hole in one at Royal Workington near Newmarket on a cold, frosty morning,” he once insisted. “I think I’m in a club of one at the moment.”
The Magician has also claimed that a 147 break is tougher to achieve than a nine-darter, much to the chagrin of followers. Now, Price appears to have achieved snooker’s Holy Grail. He even has video evidence to prove it, sort of.
Earlier this month, the 39-year-old posted a clip on of him putting together a maximum break before being left to rue a technical hitch. He captioned: “When you make your first 147 break [shocked face emoji]. And my phone dies.”
Gerwyn Price’s attempt to record his 147 break suffered a technical hitch (Image: gezzy.darts/Instagram)
Price has previously weighed into the what-is-toughest debate and surprisingly sided with snooker. Speaking in 2022, he said: “I’d say a 147 is harder, because I know how tough snooker is.
“But then a snooker player might say a nine-darter is harder, but I’d definitely say a 147 is harder than a nine-darter. But also, you can fluke a 147, you can fluke a ball and still be on it, I can’t fluke in darts.”
Murphy’s nine-dart claim came under fresh scrutiny at the Paddy Power Perfect Challenge at the end of last year, where he appeared alongside snooker rival Mark Williams and darts stars and Murphy irked 2024 world champion Humphries as the debate rumbled on.
Shaun Murphy has reached the last four of the Masters (Image: Getty)
While he impressively hit a maximum break, his performance on the oche was, in his words, “rubbish”. Murphy admitted to “I haven’t played darts for 15 years, can I just say, and then I was ambushed and asked to throw three darts in front of Michael van Gerwen, Luke Humphries, the world’s press and media, Mark Williams. I was so nervous.
“Then I nearly threw one and nearly knocked the scorer out! That was a joke – he [Humphries] didn’t take it as a joke and didn’t see the funny side of it. Where’s everyone’s sense of humour gone these days? Everyone seems to have gone very serious.”
Price and Murphy have been in action in their own sports this week. Price reached the final of the Bahrain Darts Masters, along the way before losing to Stephen Bunting, while Murphy has advanced to the last four of the Masters at Alexandra Palace.