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Senior Open Championship: Darren Clarke 2 shots off halfway lead

Wes Short Jr birdied his final 3 holes to a take a one-shot lead into the weekend at the Senior Open Championship, with Darren Clarke a part of the chasing pack.


The American's quick end closed out a three-under sixty-seven and took him to 6 underneath for the tournament at Royal Lytham St Annes, an attempt further from long leader Scott Dunlap.

Clarke sits 2 strokes off the pace in the third spot when a second ordered sixty-eight, with betraying major champion Retief Goosen within the cluster tied-fourth on 3 underneath when a bogey-free sixty-seven.

It's frustrating after you come back off the golf links and you're feeling as if you've taken as several as you most likely will and you left four or 5 out there - and that's what I do each day, that is somewhat frustrating."

Clarke, bidding to become simply the fourth player in history to win each The Open and therefore the Senior Open, bogeyed 2 of his gap four holes however recovered to birdie the seventh and ninth to achieve the flip level-par.


The 2011 Champion linksman of the Year followed a birdie-two at the twelfth with consecutive birdies from the sixteenth to maneuver into a share of the lead, solely to bogey the par-four last and move to four underneath.

Goosen shares fourth place with patrician Bryant and Ken Duke on 3 underneath, with English couple Roger Chapman and Paul Broadhurst sitting four off the pace aboard Colin Montgomerie and Phillip worth.

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