Reuters
Player: Darren Clarke
Country: Northern Ireland
Date of birth: August 14, 1968
Residence: Chobham, England
Family Two children
Hobbies: Films, reading, cars, fishing, Liverpool FC
Turned pro: 1990
Career victories:
Darren won the BMW Asian Open and later in the year the KLM Dutch Open for his 12th victory on the European Tour. A stalwart of the European Tour since 1991, Darren is no stranger to firsts. In the 1999 Smurfit European Open he became the first player on The European Tour to shoot 60 for a second time, having previously achieved the feat at the 1992 European Monte Carlo Open, and in 2001 he became the first Irishman to win on home soil since John O'Leary in 1982, when he captured the Smurfit European Open. In 2002 he became the first player to win the English Open three times and in 2003, at the NEC Invitational, he became the first player outside Tiger Woods to capture more than one World Golf Championship title.
- 2008 BMW Asian Open, KLM Dutch Open
- 2005 Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters
- 2004 Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters
- 2003 WGC - NEC Invitational
- 2002 The Compass Group English Open
- 2001 Smurfit European Open, Dimension Data Pro-Am, Chunichi Crowns
- 2000 The Compass Group English Open, WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play
- 1999 Compass Group English Open
- 1998 Volvo Masters, Benson and Hedges International Open
- 1996 Linde German Masters 1993 Alfred Dunhill Open
