Champion Clarke at a loss to explain North's golfing record

New Open champion Darren Clarke is at a loss to explain how tiny Northern Ireland has suddenly produced an amazing three major winners in 13 months - after one in the previous 149 years.

Fred Daly stood alone until Graeme McDowell landed the US Open last summer, but then 22-year-old Rory McIlroy took the same trophy last month and now Clarke has the Claret Jug.