Clarke collects award

Darren Clarke’s four-stroke million-dollar victory in the NEC world championship in Akron has earned him the European tour’s Asprey Golfer of the Month award for August.

Clarke became only the second player – after Tiger Woods, who has seven – to win more than one of the World Golf Championships. In a field which contained every member of the world’s top 50 he had rounds of 65-70-66-67 for a 12-under-par total of 268.