Ryder Cup vice-captain Graeme McDowell admits he wants the main job in the future but accepts there is a log-jam of players queuing up ahead of him.

During the Christmas break of the PGA Tour’s wraparound season, Graeme McDowell toiled for seven hours at Lake Nona Golf & Country Club, his home track in Orlando, working on his game. 

McDowell left the course shattered by a poor finish that seriously compromises his hopes of participating in the Open Championship over the coming weeks, writes John McHenry.

There’s no place like home, as Dorothy said in the Wizard of Oz. 

On a day when Jordan Spieth got that sinking feeling again, Brian Keogh examines the major talking points...

For all the fire that Patrick Reed brings to the course and for all the emotion his partner, Jordan Spieth, provides, there is always a reminder that there’s another way to bring leadership.

Gavin Moynihan was inches away from leaving the K Club in a €145,000 BMW but while he narrowly missed out on the required ace, the Irish rookie was happy just to have made his first Irish Open cut.

Rory McIlroy suffered a dose of the Bay Hill Blues in the Arnold Palmer Invitational and now faces a struggle to make the cut and get his game sharp with just 20 days to go to the Masters.

Rory McIlroy will begin Friday’s PGA Championship second round five shots off the pace but satisfied to have come through a testing examination of the left ankle he injured just five weeks ago.

After a season in the doldrums, Graeme McDowell will embark on his 12th Open Championship having turned something of a corner with his game and slowly rebuilding the belief he can once again contend at the highest level.

Dustin Johnson returns to the major championship arena at St Andrews on Thursday resolved to leave behind his status as golf’s nearly man and in the process stop Jordan Spieth’s bid for Grand Slam glory.

It’s easy to write off a player like Graeme McDowell following his stuttering start to 2015.

Graeme McDowell can already picture the celebrations if he wins another US Open title to maintain Europe’s recent dominance of the year’s second major championship.

Past champion Graeme McDowell believes he may have found a key to unlock the secrets of the little-known Chambers Bay course, venue for next week’s US Open.

Graeme McDowell will tee up for his third round at Royal County Down this morning eight shots behind the leaders but convinced the Irish Open title is within his grasp.

Stephanie Meadow and Graeme McDowell both won nine times during their US college careers but Leona Maguire could blow their records out of the water after a sensational start to life at Duke University in North Carolina.

Such is his relationship with Augusta National that the Masters often holds a sting in the tail for Graeme McDowell, but it was a brush with an actual bee that nearly derailed him last night.

Graeme McDowell already has his place in Ryder Cup history but the hero of Celtic Manor would love a repeat at Gleneagles.

Irish golfer Graeme McDowell last night toasted the "happiest moment of my life" as he welcomed his first child into the world, a life-changing moment that followed hot on the heels of a career-changing one.

Graeme McDowell and Pádraig Harrington both have work to do in today’s US PGA Championship second round if they want to avoid early flights home from Valhalla.

There has been a lot written about Rory McIlroy in the days since he won the Open Championship.

Rory McIlroy exorcised his Friday demons in style as Tiger Woods almost paid the ultimate price for abandoning the tactics which previously brought him victory at Royal Liverpool in the second round of the 143rd Open Championship.

Graeme McDowell will tee off in his second round at The Open this afternoon hoping for an ill wind to blow across Royal Liverpool and give him a chance to play catch up with Rory McIlroy.

Rory McIlroy has targeted Hoylake’s par-five holes as the keys to a successful Open Championship campaign this weekend as the two-time major winner aims to emulate Tiger Woods’ 2006 success at Royal Liverpool.

Graeme McDowell has set his sights on a Claret Jug this week as he goes in search of a second Major championship title that will end all talk of him being a "one-hit wonder".

Fota Island Resort chief executive Jonathan Woods has called for more international sporting and music events to be staged in Munster following the overwhelming success of the Irish Open in Cork at the weekend.

Graeme McDowell might be considered a certainty to win his fourth Ryder Cup cap this year but the Portrush man has work to do and this week could be a small step in the right direction.

There have been a lot of "before and now" comparisons in Erik Compton’s life, let alone golf career, but as television audiences in the US found out on Saturday evening, no mention of the latter can avoid the context of the former.

Martin Kaymer stands on the brink of US Open success as he takes a five-shot lead into Sunday's final round at Pinehurst No.2.

Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell last night hailed the R&A’s expected decision to stage The Open Championship at Royal Portrush, probably in 2019.

Graeme McDowell believes controlled aggression could hold the key to unlocking his Masters mystery and finally give him a chance of fulfilling his boyhood dream.

Graeme McDowell came off best in a brutal battle with the wind-lashed Blue Monster on a day of total carnage in the WGC-Cadillac Championship.

Graeme McDowell’s Ryder Cup experience proved crucial as he came back from the dead to beat big-hitting pal Gary Woodland with a birdie at the 19th in the first round of the WGC-Accenture Match Play last night.

Graeme McDowell might have disappointed in the 2013 majors but three wins worldwide is a pretty good return in anyone’s book and if you’re wondering what the future holds, just ask his caddie Ken Comboy.

Dustin Johnson believes he can win a maiden major title after recovering superbly from seeing his overnight three-shot lead wiped out in just two holes to claim the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai.

Dustin Johnson admitted he was “a little mad” with himself after a double-bogey on the last reduced his lead to three shots heading into the final round of the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai.

Graeme McDowell joined the PGA Tour after winning the 2010 US Open at Pebble Beach, making him eligible for the PGA Tour playoffs for the FedEx Cup.

Dining out on one Major win for 60 years didn’t stop Irish golfers or Irish golf writers from attending the British Open and a host of other Majors from Fred Daly’s win in 1947 until the great messiah — Pádraig Harrington — performed his first miracle at Carnoustie in 2007.

There cannot be many upsides to finishing 36 holes six shots worse behind one’s playing partner, but after two days of watching Tiger Woods give a links masterclass at Muirfield, Graeme McDowell can stop admiring the world number one and start playing some golf of his own.

Graeme McDowell is not getting carried away by the prospect of good weather at the Open – as event organisers can still be “a little bit evil”.

Graeme McDowell, one of the favourites, will go into the British Open tomorrow determined to keep his own “dangerous” expectations in check.

Graeme McDowell is not the only in-form Irishman teeing it up at Muirfield this week.

Deep thinkers are in short supply among the golfing elite but Graeme McDowell could never be accused of failing to think outside the box when it comes to the fate of the beleaguered European Tour.