Clarke hits the drink in Wales
After a quadruple-bogey eight there in the third round of the Saab Wales Open, he took a 10 on his return yesterday. After driving into the lake, the Ulster man went to the drop zone and hit two three-woods back into the water.
“And I hit them all well,” he said after a second successive 80 made him 18 over par for the tournament.
“Let’s just say this course does not really fit my eye. It never has done — and I putted unbelievably poorly as well.”
Never before in a European Tour career going back to his debut as an amateur in 1990 has Clarke failed to break 80 in two successive rounds.
