Down to business now for Clarke

After spending two weeks relaxing on the sun-splashed shores of the Bahamas, Darren Clarke now faces a PGA Championship reality check along the shores of the Kiawah Island.

Since missing the cut in the defence of his British Open title, Clarke has been chilling out at the Abaco Resort in the Bahamas and tuning-up at the Green Turtle course.

Then after a 28-hour journey, Clarke arrived from Nassau via Washington Dulles airport to Charleston for the season’s final Major. Kiawah Island hosted the 1991 ‘War on the Shore’ Ryder Cup when USA captain Dave Stockton was unceremoniously dunked in the Atlantic Ocean by his victorious team mates.