GRAEME MCDOWELL last night dismissed his last round collapse in the US Players Championship as “a blip on the radar” and placed it a long way behind Rory McIlroy’s Masters meltdown last month.

SIX months ago who would have foreseen the possibility of the European Ryder Cup team facing the Americans in October without Sergio Garcia?

TIGER, Davis and the rest are back in Ireland this week, hell-bent on damage limitation after the USA’s humiliation in the Ryder Cup.