 Whitcombe helped form the players' association WPDPA (World Professional Dart Players` Association) with John Lowe, Cliff Lazarenko, and Tony Brown.The association was set up with the intention of promoting more televised tournaments after the big slump of televised darts in 1989 and the early 1990s.Eventually this organisation linked up with the newly formed World Darts Council in 1992, and darts was soon split into two organisations.