Woodhouse will face Stephen Bunting within the subsequent spherical after the eighth seed noticed off Latvia’s Madars Razma within the final sport of the afternoon session.
Bunting, the reigning Masters champion and former BDO world champion, put in an completed show to safe a 4-1 win.
Having taken out 113 to win the primary set, ‘The Bullet’ swiftly gained the second earlier than being pegged again by Razma, who stole the third with a 119 checkout.
Bunting had responded nicely to minor setbacks all through the match and did so once more within the fourth.
Razma’s 149 out took it to a deciding leg however fan favorite Bunting held throw and sealed the victory with a 96 that ensured he completed with a median of 100.06.
“I’ve dreamt about successful this event for the previous 20 years and I would like to do it,” Bunting stated. “With the Bunting Military behind me, who’s going to cease us?”
In the meantime, Jonny Clayton held off a valiant fightback from Daryl Gurney to take the deciding set and transfer into the fourth spherical with a 4-3 win.
Welshman Clayton edged the primary set then produced checkouts of 160 and 120 to clinch the second and third respectively.
However the seventh seed faltered within the fourth and Gurney took benefit, averaging over 100 within the the following two units to make it 3-2 earlier than levelling the match after a considerably comical leg, through which each gamers missed a number of darts at double.
Clayton got here via within the decider, although, shrugging off 4 missed darts for the match to hit double 4 to arrange a fourth-round tie in opposition to Gerwyn Value or Joe Cullen.
“That’s my luck,” he informed Sky Sports activities. “In video games like that you simply want slightly little bit of luck. He missed a couple of possibilities and I missed a couple of and at 3-3 my coronary heart began to beat huge time.”
