The sweetest moment of all

IT WAS four years ago that Darren Clarke read in an English broadsheet newspaper that he was continuing an “inexorable descent towards irrelevance”.

He has kept the article ever since and last night he was finally able to laugh it off.

Less than a month shy of his 43rd birthday and in his 54th major championship, Clarke finally realised his golfing potential and found the perfect and previously elusive balance of talent, attitude and discipline to win the British Open.