In a TV interview afterwards, David Burke spoke about an incident midway through the second half, where he shouted to Joe Canning, Conor Cooney, and Joseph Cooney.

Mobile phones were all the buzz in the days leading up to this week’s Irish Open but the only sounds puncturing the quiet of the tenth tee early yesterday as a trio of Irish players got their rounds under way was the birdsong from beyond the surrounding dunes.

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

Caddie Ricky Elliott gave up on his tour dream to become a humble assistant pro but he never lost his love of the game and got the thrill of his life — and a $216,000 (€193,427) bonus — when he helped Brooks Koepka win the US Open at Erin Hills on Sunday.

The Players Stadium course at Ponte Vedra, Jacksonville, Florida, is famous mostly for the par three 17th hole with its infamous island green.

Graeme McDowell produced a grandstand finish to finish in one under par 71 and an impressive opening to The Players Championship at Ponte Vedra last night.

Graeme McDowell singled out the dangers of breaking political correctness in sport’s four-letter game after Patrick Reed’s ‘trial by TV’ verbal outburst during the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai.

Graeme McDowell has become the latest player to call for Darren Clarke to be handed the 2016 European Ryder Cup captaincy.

As Graeme McDowell stressed the importance and focus of a new family life he insists his playing schedule will not alter heading into the New Year.

Patrick Reed gained a small measure of revenge for last month’s Ryder Cup defeat by knocking European hero Jamie Donaldson out of the Volvo World Match Play Championship yesterday.

Graeme McDowell believes the continuing fallout from Europe’s Ryder Cup victory at Gleneagles will ensure a "fairly epic" contest in two years’ time.

Between them, Paul McGinley, Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell ensured that Europe’s Ryder Cup success over the United States had ‘Made In Ireland’ stamped all over it.

Rory McIlroy and his European teammates are bracing themselves for the mother all warnings against complacency from captain Paul McGinley ahead of tomorrow's pivotal Ryder Cup singles matches.

Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell refused to make a federal case out of Phil Mickelson’s comments on the lawsuit that rumbles on involving their soon-to-be ex-management company.

Europe's Ryder Cup team have laughed off Phil Mickelson's attempt to wind them up on the eve of the event.

Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell displayed all the signs of being star-struck by Team Europe’s evening with Alex Ferguson, but not so much as to ignore the potential benefits for this weekend’s Ryder Cup defence.

Graeme McDowell might have called it a "conscious uncoupling" but whatever way you put it, the Ryder Cup star admitted his golfing dynamic with Rory McIlroy was very different now to when they first played together five years ago.

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

The Ryder Cup is the ultimate pressure cooker for a golfer but for Rory McIlroy — who wants Darren Clarke to succeed Paul McGinley as captain in 2016 — it’s not a lot different from the goldfish bowl existence that sums up the world No 1’s life these days.

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.

After recently reluctantly agreeing to be photographed with the Claret Jug in France, Graeme McDowell will turn down a request to pose with the Rodman Wanamaker Trophy, the prize in capturing next week’s USPGA Championship.

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".

Ryder Cup skipper Paul McGinley yesterday insisted Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell will "be professional" and put any possible strain in their relationship aside to team up again at Gleneagles in September.

Graeme McDowell achieved a career first and heads into next week’s British Open in the best possible frame of mind after virtually being handed a successful defence of his French Open title in Versailles.

Defending champion Graeme McDowell strangely launched into a vigorous defence of guaranteed Ryder Cup rookie Victor Dubuisson after the second round of the French Open.

While a limited playing schedule this season has him well outside of qualifying for the Ryder Cup, Graeme McDowell is quietly confident five events in the next six weeks will lift him into Paul McGinley’s team.

Jet-lagged Graeme McDowell is hoping a good night’s sleep will help him mount a charge in pursuit of overnight leader Mikko Ilonen as the second round of the Irish Open gets under way at Fota Island Resort today.

Shane Lowry was well entitled to a wry smile over the last day or two as he heard just about everybody talk up Ireland’s prospects of a medal at the 2016 Olympic Games now that Rory McIlroy has declared for Ireland and Graeme McDowell has confirmed he will wear the green, white and orange in Rio.

Rory McIlroy’s decision to represent Ireland in the 2016 Olympic Games delighted his fellow Ulsterman Graeme McDowell at Fota Island yesterday with the talented pair now set to wear the green jersey in Rio.

Graeme McDowell headed for Europe last night determined to turn a corner with his driving and putting as he targets a Ryder Cup spot.

Martin Kaymer birdied three of the last five holes to jump out ahead of Graeme McDowell as the clear leader of the US Open going into Friday's second round at Pinehurst.

Graeme McDowell allowed himself the pat on the back he knew Pinehurst No.2 would not give him after an opening round at the US Open that leaves the Portrush golfer primed to regain the title he won in 2010.

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 is digging in for another hard slog at the US Open as the 2010 champion prepares to par Pinehurst No. 2 "to death", starting tomorrow.

Neither Graeme McDowell nor Pádraig Harrington, the two Irish players to survive the cut in the $5.8 million St Jude’s Classic in Memphis, managed to maintain their challenge and were well off the pace as the weather-marred tournament reached its climax last night.

It’s torture and in a way he’s tortured, but Pádraig Harrington has the good grace and awareness to realise he’s still one of the lucky ones.

It is fair to say Graeme McDowell has not always anticipated an early April drive up Magnolia Lane to Augusta National as eagerly as most who get the invitation to play the Masters.

Darren Clarke believes Ulster duo Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell can come up with the answer to the $64,000 question and finally end Ireland’s long wait for a Masters champion.

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.