David Feherty (born 13 August 1958) is a former European Tour and PGA Tour golfer, who now works as a writer and broadcaster. He is known by many for his good sense of humour.

He was born in Bangor, Northern Ireland and spent most of his playing career in Europe, where he won five times and finished in the top ten of the European Tour’s Order of Merit twice, coming tenth in 1989 and eighth in 1990. He spent 1994 and 1995 playing mainly on the PGA Tour, and the best result on the tour was a second place finish at the 1994 New England Classic. His combined career prize money exceeded $3 million.

Feherty represented Ireland numerous times in international competition including captaining the victorious 1990 Alfred Dunhill Cup team. Feherty also played for Europe on the 1991 Ryder Cup team.

In 1997, Feherty retired from both the European and PGA Tour and joined CBS Sports as an on-course reporter and golf analyst. Feherty is also a frequent contributor to Golf Magazine and has his own column in the back of the magazine called Sidespin. He is also the New York Times and Booksense bestselling author of three books, A Nasty Bit of Rough, Somewhere in Ireland a Village Is Missing an Idiot, and David Feherty’s Totally Subjective History of the Ryder Cup.

He is also a co-announcer on EA Sports’ Tiger Woods PGA Tour series along with Gary McCord. He lives with his wife, Anita (whom he calls “She Who Must Be Obeyed” in his Golf Magazine column), and five children in Dallas, Texas. He also currently features in advertisements for the Cobra golf company, showing off his trampolining and cheerleading skills in the advert, to show off the company’s Speed drivers & woods.

Feherty has had a long struggle with depression and alcoholism, which he publicly addressed in 2006. In an interview with Golf Magazine about his problems, Feherty said that his therapy for depression was instrumental with him getting off the bottle, saying that “I used alcohol to mask my inner demons”. The outspoken columnist then took a shot at actor and noted Scientologist Tom Cruise, who has said that therapy and drugs are useless and that depression can be cured by physical exercise: “Actually, some sort of exercise would have helped me. If I kicked the shit out of Tom Cruise, I’d feel a lot better about myself.”

Along with George Lopez, Feherty hosted the Lopez - Feherty Foundation Anti-Pro-Am in November of 2005.

He also guest starred in the Season 6 episode of Yes, Dear Greg’s a Mooch

European Tour wins
1986 Italian Open, Bell’s Scottish Open
1989 BMW International Open
1991 Credit Lyonnais Cannes Open
1992 Iberia Madrid Open

Darren Christopher Clarke (born 14 August 1968) is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who plays on both the PGA Tour and the European Tour. He was born in Dungannon, County Tyrone. He played college golf at Wake Forest University in the United States.

Clarke has been featured in the top 10 in the Official World Golf Rankings. The most prestigious titles he has won are the 2000 WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship when he defeated Tiger Woods in the final, and the 2003 WGC-NEC Invitational. His highest finish on the European Tour money list is second, which he achieved in 1998, 2000 and 2003. He has represented Ireland in the World Cup and Alfred Dunhill Cup and played for Europe on five consecutive Ryder Cup teams 1997, 1999, 2002, 2004 and 2006.

Clarke is represented by International Sports Management.

Private life
Clarke met his wife Heather in a nightclub in Portrush, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The couple had two sons, Tyrone (born 1998) and Conor (born 2001), and the family lived at Sunningdale, Berkshire. In 2005 and 2006 he missed several tournaments to care for his wife, who was diagnosed with both primary and, later, secondary breast cancer.

Heather Clarke died at 2.15am on Sunday August 13, 2006 at 39 years of age, in the Royal Marsden Hospital, London (the day before her husband’s 38th birthday).

Clarke’s friend, Paul McGinley immediately announced his own withdrawal from the PGA Championship starting in Medinah, Illinois on Thursday. In a statement McGinley said, “Our two families are very much intertwined, obviously me and Darren, but Heather and (McGinley’s wife) Ali were the best of friends and our kids are in the same class at school. So it is a tough time for us all” Clarke later made himself available for selection for the 2006 Ryder Cup. European captain Ian Woosnam chose him as one of his two wild cards and he contributed 3 points from 3 matches to Europe’s victory.

Clarke is a keen cigar smoker, on and off the golf course, and has been reported to spend an estimated £25,000 per year on cigars.

Darren was the favourite to win the 2006 Sports Personality Of The year award, but was runner-up to Zara Philips. Darren had previously stated he didn’t want to win based on a sympathy vote concerning his wife’s death.

European Tour wins (10)
1993 (1) Alfred Dunhill Open
1996 (1) Linde German Masters
1998 (2) Benson & Hedges International Open, Volvo Masters
1999 (1) Compass Group English Open
2000 (2) WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship, Compass Group English Open
2001 (1) Smurfit European Open
2002 (1) Compass Group English Open
2003 (1) WGC-NEC Invitational

PGA Tour wins (2)
2000 (1) WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship
2003 (1) WGC-NEC Invitational

Japan Golf Tour wins (4)
2001 Dimension Data Pro-Am, The Crowns
2004 Mitsui Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters
2005 Mitsui Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters

Challenge Tour wins (1)
2003 Benmore Developments Northern Ireland Masters

Other wins (2)
1992 Ulster Professional Championship
1994 Irish National PGA Championship

Professional team appearances
Ryder Cup (representing Europe): 1997 (winners), 1999 (losers), 2002 (winners), 2004 (winners), 2006 (winners)
Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Ireland): 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
World Cup (representing Ireland): 1994, 1995, 1996
The Seve Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2000, 2002 (winners)
Royal Trophy (representing Europe): 2007 (winners)

Amateur wins
1990 Spanish Amateur Open Championship, Irish Amateur Championship

Philip Walton (born 28 March 1962) is an Irish golfer.

Walton attended Oklahoma State University in the United States and played for Great Britain & Ireland in the Walker Cup in 1981 and 1983. He turned professional in 1983 and spent many years on the European Tour, making the top one hundred on the Order of Merit every year from 1983 to 1998, with a best ranking of thirteenth in 1995. He has won three European Tour events and four Irish PGA Championships.

Walton has represented Ireland or Great Britain & Ireland on many occasions. He was a member of the winning Irish team at the 1990 Alfred Dunhill Cup. He made his only Ryder Cup appearance for Europe in 1995 at Oak Hill, where he beat Jay Haas on the final green of the crucial penultimate singles match.

Tournament wins

Amateur
1981 Scottish Amateur Stroke Play Championship, Spanish Open Amateur Championship
1982 Irish Amateur Championship

European Tour
1990 Open de France
1995 Open Catalonia, Murphy’s English Open

Other professional tournaments
1987 Irish PGA Championship
1989 Irish PGA Championship
1991 Irish PGA Championship
1995 Irish PGA Championship

Team appearances

Amateur
Walker Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1981, 1983
Eisenhower Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1982

Professional
Ryder Cup (representing Europe): 1995 (winners)
Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Ireland): 1989, 1990 (winning team), 1992, 1994, 1995
World Cup (representing Ireland): 1995
Europcar Cup: 1988

Des Smyth (born 12 February 1953) is an Irish golfer.

Smyth was born in Drogheda, County Louth. He turned professional in 1974 and was a member of the European Tour for over a quarter of a century. His best finish on the European Tour Order of Merit was seventh in 1988. He won eight tournaments on the tour across four different decades, breaking Neil Coles record as the oldest man to win a European Tour event when he claimed the 2001 Madeira Island Open at the age of 48 years and 34 days.

Since turning fifty in 2003 he has had a successful career in senior golf, winning tournaments on both the Champions Tour and the European Seniors Tour.

Smyth represented Europe in the Ryder Cup in 1979 and 1981. He represented his country in the World Cup and the Alfred Dunhill Cup many times and was a member of the Irish team which won the latter in 1988.

He was one of Ian Woosnam’s vice-captains at the 2006 Ryder Cup.

Tournament wins
Amateur
1968 South of Ireland Open Amateur

European Tour
1979 Sun Alliance European Match Play Championship
1980 Newcastle Brown “900″ Championship, Cold Shield Greater Manchester Open
1981 Coral Classic
1983 Sanyo Open
1988 Jersey Open
1993 Madrid Open
2001 Madeira Island Open

Other wins
1979 Irish National PGA Championship
1985 Irish National PGA Championship
1986 Irish National PGA Championship
1990 Irish National PGA Championship
1995 Glen Dimplex Irish Match Play
1996 Irish National PGA Championship
2001 Irish National PGA Championship

Champions Tour
2005 SBC Classic, Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf

European Seniors Tour

2005 Arcapita Seniors Tour Championship
2007 Wentworth Senior Masters

Team appearances
Ryder Cup: 1979, 1981
Alfred Dunhill Cup: 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 (winners), 2000
WGC-World Cup: 1979, 1980, 1982, 1988, 1989
Hennessy Cognac Cup: 1980 (winners), 1982 (winners), 1984
UBS Cup: 2001