Losing pounds, gaining air miles

DARREN CLARKE has answered the critics who think he lives for the good things in life to the detriment of his golf.

Globetrotter Clarke rarely has a moment to himself.

His recent itinerary eads something like this: the season ending Tour Championship on the US circuit then followed by business commitments in Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Johannesburg; the Nedbank Sun City Challenge; this week the Hong Kong Open; next week it's the beginning of Tiger Woods's Target Challenge in California.