DARREN CLARKE ended a three-year winless drought in Mallorca but Graeme McDowell couldn’t make it an Irish double as he imploded with a final round 79 in the Players Championship at Sawgrass.

DARREN CLARKE is desperate for his career to get back on the right track in 2011 and is hoping this week’s Africa Open will be the place where he turns around his fortunes.

IT was not the preceding six birdies but the two-metre putt for par on the final green that delighted Darren Clarke most on the opening day of the Barclays Scottish Open at Loch Lomond.