Darren Clarke
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Oct 8, 2026
Scott YoungHOST
So here we've got Miguel, uh, Jimenez; Justin Leonard, major winner; Ernie Els, major winner; Boo Wil- Boo- Boo Weekley, guy I played a bit of golf with; Jerry Kelly.
Scott YoungHOST
We've got Darren Clarke, major winner; Stewart Cink, major winner; Steve Alker, who's a Kiwi who's just killing our Champions Tour; Retief Goosen, South African major winner; and we'll include Michael Block.
Scott YoungHOST
And the point is, we're trying to say, hey, please don't look at Rory 'cause he's a, he's just a physiological freak and just been, he's been born with a brilliant gene to be brilliant.
Scott YoungHOST
Scottie Scheffler, quirk.
Scott YoungHOST
Ernie Els, his golf shaft's on top of his elbow, meaning he's on top of it.
Scott YoungHOST
Boo Weekley happens to be coming up and down on the same plane, but his golf shaft still comes a little vertically through his bicep, which means his shoulders are gonna be taking over, which means he'll hit a high spinning cut.
Scott YoungHOST
Darren Clarke goes up and down the same plane, but his golf shaft is a little steep through the bicep.
Scott YoungHOST
Stewart Cink is really on top of the golf club.
Claude Harmon IIIGUEST
You know, Trevor Immelman was my first real client on the European Tour back in 2002.
Claude Harmon IIIGUEST
Um, I had worked with, you know, Darren Clark, Adam Scott, all the guys that my dad had worked with.
Claude Harmon IIIGUEST
I spent an enormous amou- amount of time around Tiger and stuff like that, and all the guys that my dad worked with.
Claude Harmon IIIGUEST
But Trevor was really my first client that I had.
Gary WilliamsHOST
I know you are, like you said, points flying everywhere with nine-hole matches.
Gary WilliamsHOST
The reward, the recognition of something like this, to have a captain like Rativ Kusin, the other two captains are also major champions, Justin Leonard for the United States, Darren Clark for the Europeans.
Gary WilliamsHOST
Do you get anything that you think might be transferable to your own makeup, your own process, by the osmosis of being around these guys for a week?
Steven AlkerGUEST
Yeah, I think so.
57 MINS LATER
Jim FurykGUEST
And my Memory going back to the K Club, especially early in the week, the amount of wind, the amount of rain, the difficult conditions to practice in.
Jim FurykGUEST
But I'd be remiss.
Jim FurykGUEST
I mean, we all have a dear friend, and Darren Clark was going through an extremely – my memory of that week and what was so special was Darren was going through such an emotional time.
Jim FurykGUEST
his teammates rallied around him.
Jim FurykSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Um, but I really think You know, if I can, from, from the presser, the heartwarming part of that.
Jim FurykSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Darren Clarke's a dear friend.
Jamie WeirHOST
Mm-hmm.
Jim FurykSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He has so many friends around the world.
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Luke DonaldSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I won three of my matches.
Luke DonaldSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I, I contributed to the team.
Luke DonaldSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know, Darren Clarke going through what he did, um, captain Ian Woosnam.
Luke DonaldSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It was just, it was a, it was a fun week, you know? And, uh, it was a wet one, the weather we had to deal with, but, uh, in the end we got, uh, an emphatic victory and, you know, I think, um, the atmosphere that we played in was, was incredible.
MichaelHOST
I'm sure he-
JonnyHOST
As well as obviously Gee Mac and, and Darren Clarke, and stuff like that.
JonnyHOST
But, like, currently playing, he's the only one I don't have.
MichaelHOST
Yeah.
Johnny SmacksGUEST
Or could I be Irish opening as Padraig Harrington
Johnny BGUEST
then? We've written down Darren Clarke.
Johnny BGUEST
So what do you want to go with? Seriously? Well, you didn't react very well to Darren Clarke.
Johnny BGUEST
Which makes me kind of want to change back to Padraig Harrington now.
Johnny BGUEST
We'll go with Padraig Harrington.
Karl MorrisGUEST
So that was the, that was the fascination all those years ago, and I got, I got quite lucky in the early days, worked with a couple of players who did pretty well.
Karl MorrisGUEST
And then all of a sudden, you know, more players came on board like Darren Clarke, Lee Westwood, Louis Oosthuizen, players like that, and, uh, 20-odd years have disappeared, and I'm still trying to, uh, answer some of these questions for you, like why-
Josh KarpHOST
Yeah
Karl MorrisGUEST
... why can't, why can't golfers access the skill that they have?
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Josh KarpHOST
Um, you know, you've worked with Oosthuizen, you've worked with Graeme McDowell, you've worked with, like, seven people who've won majors, I, I believe.
Karl MorrisGUEST
Yeah.
Josh KarpHOST
And Darren Clarke as well, and, and so, you know, talk about, yeah, first talk about that, that story and, and, and working with pros, I guess.
Karl MorrisGUEST
Yeah, the Louis one was interesting b-because he came to see me, and he'd just played in the US Open, and this was back in 2010.
Nate ScottGUEST
Um, yeah, pretty, pretty unbelievable week.
Nate ScottGUEST
Um, partnered, uh, with, uh, Darren Clarke and his caddie, Keith Nolan, who's a legend as well.
Nate ScottGUEST
He was, uh, part of the Walker Cup team at one point.
Nate ScottGUEST
He's played both nationwide back then, Korn Ferry now, and, and a ton of PGA Tour events, so we were surrounded by a legend, and a legend in his own right with Darren and Keith, so it was, it was just an incredible week.
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Nate ScottGUEST
Yeah, we go, we go to, uh, we birdie the first nine holes.
Nate ScottGUEST
We go to 10, which is a hard hole, miss a maybe 18-footer, and then we go to 11.
Nate ScottGUEST
Um, we have 15, 20 feet for eagle, miss it, tap in for birdie, and then Darren Clarke doesn't hit a single putt for the rest of the, for the next two hours.
Nate ScottGUEST
Ben Crane makes a eight-footer on 11, a 15-footer on 12, a 15-footer on 13, a 10-footer on 14, a nine-footer on 15, a-