Clarke joins up with Woosnam's ex-caddie

Tue, 14 Feb 18:29:00 2012

Open champion Darren Clarke has appointed Phil "Wobbly" Morbey, who used to caddie for former world number one Ian Woosnam, as his new bagman.

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ISM, Clarke's management team, told Reuters on Tuesday that Morbey would launch his partnership with the 43-year-old Briton at next week's WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in Marana, Arizona.

The world number 54 announced in January that he had split up with John Mulrooney, the caddie who helped him land his first Major championship at the Open in July.

Northern Irishman Clarke has been out of sorts since his victory at Sandwich, his best result a 20th-place finish at the Volvo Golf Champions tournament in South Africa last month.

He and Mulrooney parted company after the player slumped to rounds of 72 and 81 to miss the cut at the Abu Dhabi Championship two and a half weeks ago.

Morbey spent 14 years as caddie for Woosnam and was with the Welshman when he won the 1991 US Masters.

Reuters

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  1. Its going to be a quick trip to the Arizona Desert for­ Darren the way he is playing at the moment.After­ winning the Open Championship its going to be hard to­ maintain that drive and energy to start again and this­ tournament is a tough one to get any momentum on .Even­ some of the Worlds best get dumped out in the first 2­ rounds and it depends on the draw I guess then­ surviving each round.I know he did take down Woods back­ in the day in this format but there is a lot of miles­ on his tank since .Piecrust I still remember poor old­ Woosman throwing that Driver into the trees after­ finding out he had too many and its a shame really he­ didnt get back even close to that position again but he­ has a Masters jacket at least .

    From Born to Run, on Wed 15 Feb 22:26

  2. Martin - Cheers buddy, I didn't think Wobbly was­ the culprit for the Woosie 15 club debacle.
    rtz5 - Not­ sure what you mean by your comment, I always thought­ Wobbly was a very good and well respected caddie, when­ I read the headline my first thought was, good choice­ by Darren????

    From Piecrust, on Wed 15 Feb 21:18

  3. myles byrne was the caddies name gents,and the ironic­ thing is that he didnt play golf!!A couple of his­ brothers were low handicappers,Brian and dermot.

    From Martin, on Wed 15 Feb 21:05

  4. Big mistake for Darren to take on this guy, not a very­ good track record off the pitch!

    From .!., on Wed 15 Feb 21:02

  5. bobby - Thinking about it, Woosie sacked that Irish­ caddie in the end because he was late for a tee time­ because he had a few to many the night before. I seem­ to remember he was one of several good caddie brothers­ but let the side down, cant remember his name though.

    From Piecrust, on Wed 15 Feb 19:35

  6. bobby - Correct me if if wrong buddy, but I dont think­ Wobbly was caddying for Woosie when he had 15 clubs in­ the bag, I believe it was an Irish caddie who's­ name escapes me?

    From Piecrust, on Wed 15 Feb 19:31

  7. What price loyalty these days?

    From Les Carnie, on Wed 15 Feb 17:45

  8. Typical -blames his caddie for not playing well - maybe­ you should keep off the Guiness a wee bit Darren

    From gavin, on Wed 15 Feb 16:26

  9. Its like a remake of the movie ` The Odd Couple`.

    From zaiwaladeal, on Wed 15 Feb 16:05

  10. That was a different caddy!

    From BRIAN, on Wed 15 Feb 6:44

  11. Make sure you count your clubs Darren!

    From bobby, on Wed 15 Feb 3:04
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