Dan Walker vs Danny Willett charity golf day

The Star, Sheffield

Dan Walker vs Danny Willett charity golf day for Sheffield Children's Hospital.

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00:00 are we doing this? We're raising as much money as physically possible for Sheffield Children's

00:04 Hospital. Yeah, got a great day planned. Loads of golf, loads of auction prizes, loads of fun,

00:11 loads of cash raised. It'll be good. We're both very passionate supporters of Sheffield Children's

00:16 Hospital. I've been a patron for a long time and Danny's been a big supporter because we're both

00:22 from Sheffield, well I live in Sheffield now, we're both dads and we know how important it is for our

00:27 kids but also the thousands of other kids not just in Sheffield but around the UK and around the

00:31 world so anything we can do to support that and you know Danny's an unbelievable brilliant golfer

00:37 and we've been... Thank you. Thank you. We've won that Masters thing haven't we? And we're both

00:43 big supporters of the charity so we thought we'd come together, invite as many people as we could,

00:48 do it at Robber and Golf Club and try and raise as much money as we can.

00:51 And have you got a target of how much you'd like to raise?

00:55 Yes. No, well we have. We just got told that they built a six million pound helipad last year,

00:59 I think we might struggle with that just on one day but it's about just literally just as much as

01:03 possible. Get people in their pockets, they're gonna have a great day and yeah and fingers

01:09 crossed it can be a pretty number at the end of it. We've had big plans and I've done a golf day

01:14 for many years pre-covid for Children's Hospital and average golf day is raised somewhere between

01:19 five and six thousand pounds. Our plans are much bigger than that so we'd like to get five figures

01:24 we'd like to get at least comfortably five figures. Because you know days like this do make a

01:29 difference and you look at the number of people who've turned up to support whether that's paying

01:33 to play in it or you know just volunteers, people who are giving us prizes, just people involved in

01:39 the day and hopefully I can't see one person who's not smiling in the background so that's great.

01:43 It's going to be a really good day and they get to see Danny between the golf club as well.

01:47 David Seaman, what are we doing here today? Well I mean I'm here with my brother. My brother

01:53 obviously lives in Rotherham and this is his local club and I'm playing in Danny Willett and Dan

01:57 walks the golf day which is weird because my brother invited me not Dan so I'm like right

02:04 where was my invite? You're a plus one. I know I'm a plus one of my brother so I'm happy about that but

02:11 I get to come back to Rotherham. I came up yesterday and we went out for a local Indian

02:16 restaurant to a local Indian restaurant and it was fun you know so I'm looking forward to this.

02:20 Hopefully it stays dry and we'll have some good fun I'm sure. Yes fingers crossed but how does it

02:26 feel to be here? What does it mean to you to be supporting the charity? It's nice you know it's

02:30 raising awareness trying to raise as much money as possible. Apparently some of it one of the

02:35 teams has arrived in helicopters and they've got cash so that will be useful in the ocean I'm sure.

02:41 Yes definitely. Are you going to be sticking around for the barbecue later? Yeah I'll be

02:46 free food on the ocean. I'll get my meal and then I'm going home.

02:49 Fantastic and do you play much golf in general? I play a bit of golf. I used to play a lot of golf.

02:59 I love my fishing you know so my spare time is spent doing my fishing. I played at Loch Lomond

03:05 last week and I didn't play very well and it was a gorgeous place you know so hopefully my game's a

03:10 little bit better today. But who knows it's golf it's so frustrating that's why I go fishing.

03:17 What are you doing here today? Well I'm here to support my friend Dan, Dan Walker and also to

03:25 help out with a wonderful charity the Sheffield Children's Hospital charity. They're doing amazing

03:30 things so we're getting to play golf too. Why wouldn't I be here? Are you quite an active golf

03:37 player? I play golf all the time. When I'm on tour I play every day and when I'm home I play when I'm

03:42 allowed. When I'm allowed out of the house. So do you have quite a competitive streak in you?

03:47 Yeah I enjoy my golf but yeah once I tee off and whoever I'm playing against I'm normally pretty

03:53 competitive against them. Yeah I've got a pretty competitive nature in general.

03:56 Mainly I'm here to support Dan and obviously this charity means a lot to Dan and I think that's how

04:02 most of us do it. We get into something that we love. I'm actually the president now of the

04:08 Bubble Foundation in Newcastle and I do the same thing. Whenever I have a golf day or something I

04:13 call on my friends people like Dan and we come and help each other out. So anyone that knows Dan

04:17 knows he's a great guy and if this means something to Dan well then we're going to get behind it and

04:21 help him out.

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