As they stood on the 18th green after the second round at Killarney, he simply walked over to his playing partner and said: "Stay patient, you muppet." When Clarke finds time to analyse his career, he may find he derives deeper satisfaction ... When Colin Montgomerie, during the Open at St Andrews, knocked on the door of his room at the Old Course Hotel to offer him a role as one of Europe's three vice-captains, Clarke needed, as he recalls, just "two seconds" to accept. ...
