"It's pretty full on", said Lacey. "There's a lot of practice. Like any hand-eye coordination sport, you've got to be playing all the time. I've been doing about two to four hours practice a night over the last four or five weeks.
"There's a lot of travel involved. I've played a couple of tournaments in Australia and you fly Friday and fly back home on Monday.
"I'm probably luckier than most because I've got some pretty good sponsors behind me. You couldn't do it by yourself.
"At the moment there's probably not the sponsorship dollar wise for the players. It's quite tough travelling around.
"There's fifteen tournaments on the DPNZ tour in New Zealand. It ranges from Auckland to Invercargill and we play for $500 first prize and if you're flying to Invercargill, there's your winnings taken."
Lacey had to recover from a darts injury earlier in the year but the Lone Wolf fought his way back to fitness and he's now ready to compete as one of eight Kiwis in the Sky City Super League Darts tournament.
"I had tendonitis in my elbow. It's not the best injury to have as a darts player but it was just wear and tear.
"I'm over it now and I can throw for two or three years hours without any pain."
Lacey's son came up with his "Lone Wolf" nickname because he was accustomed to travelling around to tournaments on his own.
His family has plenty of sporting pedigree and Lacey at one time was involved in coaching league with the Warriors.
"My whole family plays darts. My mum has represented Queensland and my father was the Queensland president. They've only just both retired. Both my brother and sister have played for Queensland as well.
"I'm a rugby league man and Wally Lewis was always one guy I looked up to. I started with my local club and I got invited to the Warriors.
"I played years ago but I retired!
"In my 10 years off I was actually the manager of Warriors Reserve grade when they were the Auckland Falcons."
Lacey revealed he still has ambitions of making darts his full-time profession and making it on to the UK darts tour - where millions of dollars in prize money is up for grabs - is where everyone wants to be.
"When the position at the Warriors disappeared I still had "what if" in the back of my mind and whether I could get to England. "That's where everybody aims to get to and I picked it (darts) up again quite quickly. Every players dream is to do it for a living and you never know."
