Clarke pulls out to care for wife

DARREN CLARKE has withdrawn from this week’s Booz Allen Classic in Maryland to spend time with his wife Heather, who is suffering from cancer.

Clarke will make a decision nearer the time on whether to compete at the US Open at Pinehurst a week later.

He pulled out at the halfway stage of the recent BMW Championship at Wentworth when Heather was taken to hospital for further treatment.