Darts legend Michael van Gerwen looks unrecognisable with hair and trim figure in amazing old pictures

MICHAEL VAN GERWEN has been sporting the shaved head look for more than a decade now. And the three-time world champion looked unrecognisable before going for the bald style at a very young age. The Dutchman had a gingery auburn head of hair as a youngster – a look he would only keep for the […]

MICHAEL VAN GERWEN has been sporting the shaved head look for more than a decade now.

And the three-time world champion looked unrecognisable before going for the bald style at a very young age.

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Van Gerwen has been playing with a shaved head for over 10 years[/caption]

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He cuts a very different figure now to when he first burst onto the scene[/caption]

The Dutchman had a gingery auburn head of hair as a youngster – a look he would only keep for the first couple of years of his darts career.

And pictures of him at the 2008 PDC World Darts Championship show just how different he appeared 13 years ago.

Van Gerwen was much trimmer than he is now, but it is the hair which makes him look a completely different player.

Van Gerwen began playing darts at 13 and within just four years was playing against one of the sports great legends in Raymond van Barneveld.

In 2007, aged 17, he threw a nine-darter against Van Barneveld to make history as the youngest player to ever achieve the feat at a televised event.

And the records would continue to tumble for Van Gerwen.

After a few years of inconsistency, he would eventually win his first PDC Tour title in 2012.

And then in 2014 he became the youngest world champion in darts history, beating Peter Wright 7-4 in the final to claim the title at the age of just 24.

Since then he has gone on to win the championship on two more occasions – in 2017 and 2019.

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Meanwhile, another player who looked totally different back in the day is two-time world champion Wright.

The Scot, who claimed his second world title earlier this month, is renowned for his eccentric mohawk.

But he has not always gone for that outlandish hairstyle as he used to go for a much more modest appearance.

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Van Gerwen looks unrecognisable from photos back in 2008[/caption]

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The Dutchman was a young prodigy in darts and has lived up to the billing[/caption]