Clarkey at 22

[birdieman]

Good video on BBC sport website of DC starting out as a pro. Look out for a young Paul McGinley at the end!

Wouldn't say the years have been kind but he looks better without the mullet!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/14189902.stm

 

[Aztecs27]

That mullet is quality.

And PMac looks REALLY young!

 

[brendy]

Is it a mullet? its the same length all round just brushed back on the sides a little more?
Back then his swing was quit ea bit different.

 

[chris661]

And PMac looks REALLY young!

If you ever play in Dunfanaghy ther is a picture of Paul winning something (Irish close) and he looks really really young

 

[birdieman]

Happy birthday Brendy.

It is longer enough at the back for a mullet, it's no Chris Waddle though.

Agree his swing seems much more loose, upright and fast back then. Couldn't tell if that was a steel or graphite shaft when he really wellies one around 1:40, what do you think?

 

[brendy]

Looks like an old skool original steel big bertha. It was brought out in '91 so could well have been the latest tech back then, head certainly is bigger than persimmon woods.

I know that he loved Callaway back then as I owned one of his later Cally great Big Bertha drivers, bought from Peter Hanna (playing and teaching pro Fortwilliam at the time) in Belfast. It was a rocket of a driver with a poker stiff shaft and red band on the shaft to indicate custom made, pity I just couldnt hit it hard enough to get the ful potential out of it and went back to a biggest big bertha stiff, that was a great club for its time too.

 

[clubchamp07]

I was at that final, all those years back. I couldn't beleive how far those two guys hit the ball then. Made Portrush's 9th and 10th holes look like par 4's.........