Putting woes driving Clarke to distraction

Darren Clarke believes Ulster duo Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell can come up with the answer to the $64,000 question and finally end Ireland’s long wait for a Masters champion.

But the struggling Ulsterman all but admitted that his own chances of winning a green jacket at the 12th attempt are remote given his horrific form on the greens.

“The putting is driving me to distraction,” Clarke confessed before exhaling on a cigarette. “If I was yipping them or doing something like that, I’d go to the long putter but I’m not. My green reading has been very, very poor.