York’s Martyn Turner suffered two first round defeats in Barnsley
NORTH Yorkshire pair Martyn Turner and Terry Temple suffered first round exits during the PDC’s opening Players Championship events in Barnsley.
Turner lost 6-2 to world number 22 Paul Nicholson during the first tournament and then went down 6-3 to 1996 BDO world champion Steve Beaton.
Whitwell-on-the-Hill’s Temple, meanwhile, lost to three-time world champion John Part 6-3 having been knocked out by Bradford’s Joe Cullen 6-2 a day earlier.
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