updated since bdo resultyears tournament birth_date nickname laterality article_title hometown name
10 january 2014 1971 1971-1988 1982 , 1987 1986 1978 , 1979 , 1980 , 1981 1977 , 1980 1979 , 1981 1983 1983 , 1981 , 1982 , 1983 1985 british open north american open wdf world cup pairs wdf world open cup champions denmark open finnish open pacific masters swedish 6 december 1945 goldfinger right-handed maureen flowers
 norton green , stoke-on-trent , england maureen flowers
maureen flowers

maureen flowers -lrb- born 6 december 1945 -rrb- was for many years the number-one female darts player in the 1970s and the 1980s .
flowers grew up in norton green in stoke-on-trent , england .
she grew up learning to play darts in her father 's pub .
she won the ladies national pairs with her friend yvonne allen .
flowers began competing in the indoor league , a first for televised darts , from 1976 and later became the first professional female darts player .
she won the north american open dart tournament -lrb- naodt -rrb- three years in the ladies ' singles category : 1977 , 1979 , and 1981 .
twice a world masters finalist , flowers lost on both occasions to ann marie davies in 1982 and mandy solomons in 1988 .
at the wdf world cup in 1983 , she did win the women 's pairs -lrb- with audrey derham -rrb- and women 's overall events .
sponsored by unicorn , flowers designed her own signature darts .
in 1988 , flowers quit professional darts .
in 1996 , she was entered into the national darts hall of fame .
from 1978 to 1987 , flowers was in a relationship with eric bristow .
flowers was also the first manager of bristow 's protégé , phil taylor , during the late 1980s and early 1990s , before tommy cox took over as taylor 's manager .
