Darren Clarke has spoken about his "first and worst job" after he narrowly avoided a car bomb outside a nightclub in his hometown of Dungannon over 30 years ago.
The former Open champion was working as a bartender at the Inn on the Park when a bomb went off at the premises just before Christmas, 1986.
A teenager at the time, Clarke had taken the job to try and fund some of his golf career to ease the financial burden on his mum and dad.
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He told the PGA Tour champions social media: "My first job was working as a bartender and I had just started, it was my third week working in the nightclub part of the club.
"And I was in early setting up the mixer bottles. It was before the push-button devices. I was making sure everything was stocked and that. I was in from 6 and doors opened at 8.30.
"At 9.15 we got a bomb scare. Everybody out. The whole place cleared. It was maybe about 9. Then at 9.30 - boom! It went off and flattened the whole place. It was absolutely demolished.
"So that was probably my first and worst."
After a bomb threat and evacuation the car bomb exploded outside the venue and caused severe damage to the hotel where Clarke had been working in.
"It could have went off if things transpired, if I had been sitting outside, I don't know, 3pm or 4pm that afternoon, it could have went off at any stage," he added.
"So we might not have been having this conversation.
"That was part of growing up in Northern Ireland back in those days. But everyone got out and there was nobody hurt or anything like that.
"But that was probably the first job, and the worst."
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