Tiger, Rory and Dr Bob inspire Clarke

A TEXT from Tiger Woods, a boot up the backside from Rory McIlroy and some sage counselling from Dr Bob Rotella.

These are the things that helped Darren Clarke find the components needed to win a major championship that he had thought had been missing but were, in fact, within him all this time.

Clarke found the formula this weekend at Royal St George’s and it produced the Open Championship he had been craving since his childhood days in Dungannon.