Cameron Menzies has set his sights on joining the big ones of Scotland after leaving his daily job to move the professional ranks alongside his partner Fallon Sherrock.
Known for his sometimes overburdened parties, the 35-year-old dreams to become a member of Scottish quantities Jocky Wilson, Gary Anderson and Peter Wright in the winnership.
Menzies informed the audience of his early mature talent by making James Wade on his way to the quarterfinals of the Grand Slam of Darts in November.
Since then he has gone into force and claims a little more than five months from his second players’ championship title of his Maiden Protour titles success in April.
Menzies, which this year was also second in two players’ championships Event Final, is on track to make his World Matchplay debut in Blackpool later this summer.
“I gave the van back a few weeks ago,” Menzies said Sky Sports. “I was pretty busy and I only worked here and there one day and it just came about that I had to make a decision. I think I made the best choice!
“When I won the last protour, I kind of just went,” I think that’s me done “. I did a full shift on the thursday and basically finished up there. I was doing the darts, traveling, and trying to squeeze in a job. I felt this is the press press is the press press is the press press is the press yeaw I’m in a lot of the big tournaments, so next year is when I used to do not work, but it does not work out I’M I can go back to sanitair. “
Inspiring Sherrock
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Menzies has greatly improved the ‘Queen of the Palace’ with his game.
Darting Trailblazer Sherrock became famous The first woman to defeated a man at the World Championship in 2020, where she reached the third round.
Menzies and Sherrock have been dating since 2021, with their first date in a KFC restaurant.
“She has been a huge help,” said Menzies. “As soon as we started with a sort of dating with my arrows, have an extra steppingle because we used to practice a lot, especially in the beginning when I stayed in Scotland, and we used to do zoom conversations. We would play two nights for two or three hours. So it is quite good for me to practice against her because she is a very good player.”
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Can menzies contain his excitement on stage?
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Bizarre moment Menzies collapses on the floor after a huge mistake … but still win! Video thanks to PDC
Commentator Chris Murphy, speaking on the Love the darts’s podcastbelieves that menzies must work on containing his emotions on stage.
Murphy said: “He is a very, very talented darts player. I think everyone has known that for a long time. It is about the mental side for him whether he can comprehend himself. We will achieve many victories on the Protour. I think he will pick up ProTour titles.
“It’s just when he gets emotionally involved on the big stage whether he can see it at the end of winning a European tour title or an even bigger tournament and that would be the only question mark, but perhaps not having to work and not all his time to give him the space to tackle that side of things – so it is a bad players in the most mental players – Fallon is a fall players – Fallon is the most mental players – Fallon Pallon – Fallon – Fallon is the most mental players – Fallon – Fallon Fallon – Fallon is a pretty players. Bad practice. “
Menzies is looking for psychological help to control his fear on stage
Menzies, from the remote Scottish city of Muirkirk in Oost -Ayrshire, suffered an early exit in Alexandra Palace this year with his spirit on other things after his father, Ricky, Triple Heart Bypass operation underwent.
With Papa now recovering, Menzies has drawn his attention to breaking the Darting Elite, but knows that he must first overcome his fear issues. A problem he tried to tackle with the help of a sports psychologist.
“I am looking for professional help,” said the world No. 36. “I want to keep it more cooled, because if you are bad, you get irritated and perhaps too emotional and too rush.
“De psycholoog is een ex-Policeman uit Schotland. Hij kent zijn spullen en hij stuurt me cursussen om te lezen over angst. Er zijn veel dingen gewoon een beetje aan het knallen wat ik voel. Het zegt dat wanneer je geërgerd begint te worden, gewoon een paar seconden een paar seconden poging en herstel en opnieuw worden geprobeerd en herstel en opnieuw worden geprobeerd en opnieuw moet worden geprobeerd en opnieuw moet worden geprobeerd en opnieuw kan worden geprobeerd en opnieuw kan worden geprobeerd en opnieuw kan worden geprobeerd en opnieuw kan worden geprobeerd en opnieuw kan worden geprobeerd en opnieuw kan worden geprobeerd en opnieuw kan worden geprobeerd en opnieuw kan worden geprobeerd en opnieuw kan worden geprobeerd en opnieuw kan worden geprobeerd en opnieuw kan worden geprobeerd en opnieuw kan worden geprobeerd en opnieuw kan worden geprobeerd en opnieuw kan worden geprobeerd en opnieuw kan worden geprobeerd en opnieuw kan worden geprobeerd en opnieuw kan worden geprobeerd en opnieuw kan worden geprobeerd en opnieuw kan worden geprobeerd And again an attempt can be made and can be tried again and can be tried again and can be tried again and can be tried again and can be tried again and can be tried again and is again.
Premier League ambitions
Peter Wright and Gary Anderson (Right) are Legendes of Scottish Darts
Menzies has high expectations to break in the top 16 in the world and hopefully to experience the frenzy of Premier League -darts in the future.
World no. 1 Luke Humphries has said before that he had been left “emotionless” of too many gamesAlthough there is a point of concern that players can suffer burnout with the tensions of travel, playing in competitions, exhibitions and sponsorship appearances.
“I don’t think I would get burned out because I am very lucky, I get a few days off, while some of these boys do Premier League and then directly to Euro Tours,” said the Scot. “Those guys I can understand, but at the same time they clearly do something good to get this kind of feeling, so one day I will experience it one day.
“I wouldn’t mind that, but that’s a big question that nowadays you just look at the standard of the Premier League – it’s frightening and how these guys do it on a consistent basis, is of course the reason why they deserve to be there, but that’s a kind of dream of things. Who would not want to play every Thursday in these locations, so why not?”
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Menzies took positives from his run in Wolverhampton in November, which ended by Mickey Mansell, and believes that his best should come up with the time to touch the practice board without worrying about unclogging drains.
“I would like to be as a top-16 player who is doing well in the larger tournaments because I have the feeling that that is something I haven’t done yet,” he added. “I do it on the floor and I may hope to go to the larger stages with more experience and get a few good runs deep in the tournaments and set up the ranking.”
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