Overjoyed GUI hails exploits of ‘gentleman’ Graeme

THE Golfing Union of Ireland last night paid tribute to new US Open champion Graeme McDowell.

Following his Pebble Beach heroics, the Antrim man joins the exclusive club of major champions to have come through the GUI ranks.

Union general secretary Seamus Smith heaped compliments on McDowell, as a golfer and as a man.