Popular golfer, bright, colourful, yet detached (7)
I believe the answer is:
severed
'detached' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'popular golfer bright colourful' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'golfer' could be 'seve' (Severiano "Seve" Ballesteros 1957-2011) and 'seve' is located in the answer.
'colourful' could be 'red' (similar in meaning) and 'red' is found within the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'yet' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for severed that I've seen before include "Cut in two" , "parted" , "Bisected" , "Detached" , "Split" .)