Friends first as McDowell relishes McIlroy partnership

MAKE of them what you like, but you simply can’t ignore those amazing Irish golfing buddies Graeme (G-Mac) McDowell and Rory (Wee-Mac) McIlroy.

Having lost to Matt Kuchar and Stewart Cink on Saturday after being one up with two to play, their confidence and self belief might well have taken a battering but that’s not in the nature of either of these two.

They were sent out immediately in the foursomes against Zach Johnson and Hunter Mahan and had built up a three-hole advantage after seven when play was halted. There was, of course, still a lot of work to be done for Johnson possess one of the finest short games in the business and Hunter Mahan had gone undefeated in all of his five Ryder Cup matches at Valhalla two years ago.