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Darren Clarke rolls back years
The Northern Lights blazed on the ancient links at Royal St Georges as Rory McIlroy's long-time mentor Darren Clarke and best mate in golf Graeme McDowell stole the US Open champion's thunder at The Open.
Tens of thousands were lured to the fairway ropes at Sandwich early yesterday by the prospect of seeing fireworks as sensational as those produced by golf's Celtic Tiger as he marched to his record-breaking first Major victory at Congressional last month.
Instead, McIlroy (22), needed to show other equally important qualities, like patience, maturity and true grit, during a grim battle for survival as gales gusting up to 30mph made a snarling dragon of Royal St Georges.
To his credit, McIlroy made a reasonably good fist of it, maintaining his composure after the body blow of two early bogeys to grind out a first round of one-over par 71.
It would leave him six off the lead shared by Thomas Bjorn and Tom Lewis but still very much alive in this tournament.
The first round 65s posted by 'Old Tom' and 'Young Tom' were astonishing - Bjorn's because his was achieved in the worst of the morning weather and Lewis's because it's the lowest score ever compiled by an amateur at The Open, beating the 66 by Justin Rose in 1998 and Tiger Woods in '96.
Yet, with every respect to Lewis, Clarke and McDowell, as two vastly experienced professionals who grew up on the links at Portrush, should make a more lasting impact at this Open.
McDowell (31), the 2010 US Open champion, is respected as one of the most dogged in-fighters in golf.
He needed to draw deep on that resilience and the calming influence of his English caddie, Ken Comboy, to recover from "a horrible start" which left him three-over through five holes to post a 68 and join Clarke in a share of seventh on two-under.
"I'd three days of perfect preparation, a nice warm-up this morning and then walked onto the first tee and just put one of my worst swings of the week on it," said McDowell of the wayward drive which led to his double-bogey six at the first.
After missing the fairway, "all I could do with my second shot was just hit it over the back and I pulled a horrible lie", he added.
"It was absolute pure sand back there. I make six and walked to the second tee wondering what the hell happened."
Comboy came into his own at that point. You've got to rely on your caddie and Ken effectively talked me down off the parapet out there," McDowell admitted.
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GRAEME McDOWELL: Yeah, I made a few wee tweaks to my putter. The same putter but I put a little bit more weight on the sole, and I changed the grip after about two years. There was a lot of blood, sweat and tears on the grip. I didn't want to change it
Though he'd drop another shot after cracking a chip through the green at five, the Ulsterman reaped rich dividends from "a few tweaks" he made to his putter, including a new grip, as he picked up six birdies on the way to the finish and played the back
I was hitting my irons well, so feeling very confident with them and with my putter, too. I feel really good rolling the ball right now. The greens are perfect. For me it's just natural pleasure rolling the ball on these greens. Q. With all the rain,
He grasps his putter, the ball looks short and right but it picks up pace and bends into the hole. Rory up next..his putt drifts beyond the hole and he'll have a tricky 10-footer for par. "A nasty one" says Alliss. A cracking start for Fowler though
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