DESPERATE situations demand desperate remedies — so Darren Clarke has decided to swallow his pride and turn to the belly putter for this week’s €3.3m Smurfit European Open starting over the new South (or Smurfit) Course at The K-Club on Thursday.

FUNKY bounces might conjure up an image of some Latino Manhattan nightclubs, but it was, in fact, the language employed by Tiger Woods to describe his opening day 72 at the 104th US Open Championship on Long Island.