Clarke victory opens door to Cup spot
Darren Clarke won the KLM Open in Holland by four shots today - and may well have sealed a Ryder Cup wild card with it.
The 40-year-old Irish golfer's second victory of the year came with a superb closing 66 for a 12-under-par total of 268 at Kennemer, a course he had never played until this week.
Clarke actually saw his three-stroke overnight lead turn into a one-stroke deficit when he bogeyed the long second and Henrik Stenson birdied the first three holes.
But by the turn he had grabbed three birdies of his own and, with the Swede making a mess of the seventh and ninth, had turned that into a four-shot advantage.
European captain Nick Faldo names his two wild cards next Sunday, and Clarke and Paul Casey are now firm favourites for them.
Stenson dropped back to third with a closing bogey, Dubliner Paul McGinley claiming second place after a joint best-of-the-week 64.
