Darren Morgan’s name first came to the attention of the snooker world in general in the 1985/6 season when several century breaks were noted in the snooker press. Also that season he won a major pro-am in London. He netted a first prize of £400 winning another pro-am in Bournemouth in 1986 and in the preliminaries for the Welsh amateur championship he was on course for this first 147 when he missed the final green. He went on to win that 1987 title as well as reaching the semi finals of the world under-21 championship. He won several other events including two with £1000 first prizes and ended the 1986/7 season top of the professional ticket qualifying points table meaning he would play off against one of the bottom ranked professionals for a place on the pro tour in 1988/9.

Winning the Welsh title qualified him for the World Amateur championship in Bangalore. He went there having won the won the Welsh final of the UK amateur event and went all the way to the final where he beat Malta’s Joe Grech 11-4 to win the championship. Coming back home, he reached the quarter-finals of both the UK and Welsh amateur championships and the southern quarter-final of the English. He won the Cue World trophy for topping their satellite ranking list and as world champion gained automatic entry to the professional tour being exempt from the play-offs.

He did not make a spectacular start to his professional career but managed to reach the last 32 of three ranking events and did win the Pontins professional title beating Tony Drago in the final. He also reached the quarter finals of the Welsh professional and ended his first pro season a satisfactory 53^rd in the world rankings. In 1989/90 he reached the last 16 of the Mercantile Credit Classic and won the Welsh Pro title. He ended the season getting to the quarter-finals of the world championship at Sheffield and rose to 41^st in the rankings.

The following season he retained his Welsh title and consistent if unspectacular ranking results saw him on the verge of the top 32. He also reached the semi-final of the non-ranking World Masters and the quarter-finals of the Scottish Masters. 1991/2 saw him in his first ranking final, losing to Stephen Hendry in the Welsh Open. Five other last 16 places plus the quarter-finals of the European Open put him into the elite top 16 at the season’s end. He was also runner up in the Benson & Hedges Championship. Another ranking final came in 1992/3, the Asian Open, and he got to the quarter-finals of the UK and was runner up in the non-ranking Pontins Professional. He was then up to number ten in the rankings.

 Another good season in 1993/4 saw him reach the semis of the top two events, the UK and World championships as well as the Thailand Open quarter-final. This put him up to his best ever ranking of eighth which he retained the following season although he did not progress beyond the last four of any event. 1995/6 provided him with good results in the invitation events, winning the Irish Masters, his biggest victory to date, and reaching the semi-finals of the Scottish Masters and the quarters of the B & H Masters at Wembley. Quarter finals at the Crucible in 1996 and 1997and three other ranking quarter finals in 1995/6 were not enough to prevent him dropping first to 9^th and then 15^th by the end of 1996/7 although he did narrowly fail to retain his Irish Masters title in ’97, losing 9-8 to Hendry in the final.

In 1997/8 he failed to get beyond the last 16 of any ranking event and dropped to 22^nd.  The next season was no better and despite a semi-final in the Thailand Masters he dropped a further place down the list. The one highlight was captaining Wales to victory in the Nations Cup. After reaching the UK quarter finals in 1999, there began a disastrous spell when, apart from the world championship, he lost his opening match all the remaining events but he did win the Pontins Professional title for a second time beating Jimmy White. He also led Wales to the Nations Cup final again but this time losing to England.  He started the 2000/01 season at 25^th and the slump continued. He only won just one ranking match all season and ended the season out of the top 32 at 39^th.

There were some signs of a revival in 2001/02 as he reached the quarter-final in the China Open and only just missed out on a place at the Crucible. There was still not enough consistency however and his poor results from the previous season ensured that his ranking slumped to 54^th, his lowest ever. His ranking continued to fall and although there were brief signs that he might regain some of his old form, he lost his tour place at the end of the 2005/6 season.