Clarke clinches second win

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The 40-year-old Ulsterman'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.

"It's nice to win knowing that I had to play well and then actually doing it," said the man who was an inspiration to the last European side by winning all his three games just six weeks after his wife Heather died of breast cancer.

"I had two weeks to try to impress Nick. The first is out of the way and I seem to have done that.

"I don't know if I have done enough, but I'm going to Gleneagles in better shape and hopefully he will take notice."

Stenson dropped back to third with a closing bogey, Dubliner Paul McGinley claiming second place after a joint best-of-the-week 64.