Clarke launches new season in Durban with top 10 commandment

IRISHMAN Darren Clarke has targeted 2005 as the year he returns to the top 10 of the world rankings and he begins that bid at the SAA Open in Durban this morning.

Clarke is the big name at the Royal Durban Country Club and he is looking to build on his season-ending victory at the VISA Taiheiyo Open in Japan late last year.

Since that win, events in Clarke’s life have taken a more serious turn with wife Heather battling cancer, but her improvement in recent weeks persuaded him to go to South Africa.