So at the risk of sounding like Alan Partridge’s view of popular regional detective series, if people like team events so much, shall we not make more of them?

Or is a once-a-year weekend the perfect formula in a calendar that’s already packed with televised majors, the Premier League, World Series and the bread and butter ranking tournaments on the Pro Tour and European Tour?

Paul Nicholson has previously written a column here at Sporting Life on the various different types of tournaments he’d like to see in the PDC – even on an invitational basis – including 1001 one-leg shoot-outs, a ‘Royal Rumble’ and ‘cricket’ while he’s also discussed how to make room on the calendar, even if that’s at the expense of existing events.

However, here's another idea to throw into the mix.

The Ryder Cup of Darts.

Well, sort of…