When you are being compared with recent winners like Darren Clarke and David Healy, it speaks volumes about how far Gaelic games have come in recent years. It is certainly a special moment in my career. 
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Quotes about Darren Clarke
When you are being compared with recent winners like Darren Clarke and David Healy, it speaks volumes about how far Gaelic games have come in recent years. It is certainly a special moment in my career.
said Sean Cavanagh
in BBC News
Darren Clarke has been a good help to me giving me tips. I can just text him when I want, give him a call and go out for dinner. And another of my mates is Rory McIlroy.
was said
in BBC Sport
His job is on the golf course and he did a fine job there ... Hindsight is a wonderful thing. It's easy to criticise when things have gone wrong, but who's to say he got them wrong? How about the things he got right? What about Ian Poulter? I was one of the strongest supporters for Darren Clarke to be in the team, and Ian Poulter got four out of five points – should have been five. He was fantastic. You can't criticise that.
was said
in The Scotsman
Gooch to my right, then Daniel Bohane, then Diarmuid Murphy, John Sugrue, Brossie, Mahony, Mike Frank, Kieran Leary; around the side, this side of the toilets, Paul O'Connor, Darren Sullivan, Mike Quirke, Tommy Walsh, Declan Sullivan, Darragh Ó Sé, Marc Ó Sé, Donncha Walsh, Anthony Maher, Ronan Clarke, Kieran Cremin and back to myself.
was said
in Irish Times
We know it's not going to be easy at all ... Obviously they're missing Tiger, but we're missing Monty and we're missing Darren Clarke and we're also missing Luke Donald (out with a wrist injury). The first moment we think we're favorites and we're going to win easily, that's when we're going to feel it and we're going to struggle. You've got to get on the horse and ride it the right way.
said Sergio Garcia
in HeraldNet
Quotes from articles mentioning Darren Clarke
I want to sit down at Christmas knowing Iamin the top 50 and back into Augusta. My position where I finished last year in the European Order of Merit gets me into the other majors but notAugusta. It would be much nicer opening a nice bottle of red wine on Christmas Day knowing I am in Augusta.
was said
in Mirror.co.uk
I set out at the start of this year to get myself up the world rankings
said Darren Clarke
in Mirror.co.uk
I've been comfortable with my golf game. At the start of the year I was fighting a lot of things. I couldn't really feel my swing very well, and I've just stopped thinking about my golf swing, just going out and looking at the target and swinging. That's just how I seem to play my best golf.
was said
in Golf 365
I've been chasing my first victory for quite a while, and it's just one of those things that hasn't happened ... I can only hope once I do get over that hurdle there will be more to come. I feel like the best way to go about it is to go out and play golf, and if it's going to happen, it's going to happen.
was said
in Golf 365
I'd really like to add to my two wins. Ernie has won it four times, Retief has won it twice, Trevor has won it twice, and I've won it twice. I'd like to win a few more. I think after the Majors, any golfer wants to win his national Open and it's the same for me. This championship has so much history and it's always produced such great champions.
was said
in Golf 365
