Irish aces can let golf do the talking

VERBAL exchanges will be at a minimum when Ireland’s Darren Clarke and Paul McGinley come up against Japanese opposition in today’s first round of $7.5million Accenture World Championship at Carlsbad near San Diego.

Clarke takes on Shigeki Maruyama and McGinley is up against Shingo Katayama.

Padraig Harrington meets Australian Rod Pampling and if these are among the low key first round matches, such is far from the case with the fourth Irishman, Graeme McDowell, who takes on world number two Vijay Singh.