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The 2005 snooker world champion claims to have hit a nine-dart finish as well as a hole-in-one in golf to go along with his numerous 147 breaks in his professional career.
As far as Murphy is aware, he’s the only person in history to complete all three sporting achievements.
The old-age debate on which one is more difficult to pull off was put to the test on Wednesday with two stars from darts, snooker and golf attempting the achievement live.
Mark Williams joined Murphy on the snooker table with the latter pulling off an epic 147 break.
Michael van Gerwen laughed off Shaun Murphy’s nine-dart claim
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Van Gerwen and Luke Humphries couldn’t manage the nine-dart finish during their session while golfers Matt Wallace and Ross Fisher were unable to find a hole-in-one.
But it was after the time ran out where Van Gerwen called Murphy over to the darts board to prove his credentials at the oche.
The Dutchman laughed when Murphy’s first two darts landed nowhere near the 20 before his final throw failed to even make the board.
Van Gerwen jokingly said: “Was it 301 or 101?”
The clip soon went viral online with millions watching the video of Murphy missing the board and many questioning his claims of a nine-darter.
The 42-year-old has now spoken out on the viral clip, insisting he purposefully missed the board.
“I’ve been getting absolute pelters across social media,” Murphy told the onefourseven podcast.
“It seems as if what I thought was an obvious joke hasn’t been picked up on.
“I haven’t played darts for nearly 15 years. Let me just point this out there, to be clear, I never claimed to be a really good darts player, ever.
Shaun Murphy had a go with Michael van Gerwen’s darts
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“I used to play socially, once or twice a week in my old pub in Manchester when I lived up there a long time ago.
“Randomly, one night, using a set of Phil Taylor darts which he’d sent to me as a gift, I threw nine perfect darts. I think I followed it with 26, it was ridiculous.
“At the end of the challenge there was a lot of banter, TV crews, 50 people stood there watching. I’m totally out of my comfort zone, I’ve got a scorer who wants to watch me fail, I’ve got Mark Williams wanting to see me fail.
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Shaun Murphy missed the board entirely with one of his darts
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“[Michael] van Gerwen, one the best of all time, the current world champion Luke Humphries has given me his darts.
“I’ve thrown the first one, held onto it for a bit long and hit two, thrown the next one, gone for double something and missed that, then on purpose I’ve thrown it into the cardboard backing.
“It was totally on purpose, I thought it was funny. The marker nearly collapsed, because it finished about a foot from his head. I thought that was an obvious joke, but it wasn’t.”
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