Enjoyed a fruitful 2010 season which yielded two runner-up finishes – at The Barclays Scottish Open and the Joburg Open. Was also an instrumental part of Europe’s victory in The 2010 Ryder Cup, where he was one of Captain Colin Montgomerie’s Vice Captains. Has a habit of setting new records. In the 1999 European Open he became the first player on The European Tour to shoot 60 for a second time, having achieved it first in 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 European Open. In 2002 he became the first player to win the English Open three times and in 2003 became the first player apart from Tiger Woods to capture more than one World Golf Championship title. In 2006 his wife, Heather, sadly lost her battle with cancer, but three weeks later he was picked as one of the wild cards for The Ryder Cup at The K Club and in an emotionally charged week produced a superb performance, winning all three of his matches. A dedicated worker for charity, he organised a special Pro-Am at Portmarnock in September 1998 in aid of the victims of the Omagh bombing tragedy and set up his own Darren Clarke Foundation, which not only helps further the development of junior golf in Ireland, but also now raises money for Breast Cancer Awareness.