G-Mac looks to relax as Dubai dreams fading

GRAEME McDOWELL planned to give it “a right old rattle” before conceding the Race to Dubai title to German ace Martin Kaymer.

But the Portrush man was talking about heading out on the town in Dubai last night to have a few beers and reflect on a dream year rather than his disappointing second round 73, which left him eight shots adrift of the German at the halfway stage of the Dubai World Championship and 10 behind leaders Ross Fisher and Ian Poulter.

“I’m standing here very disappointed because I got so frustrated,” McDowell, who was undone by four bogeys in a seven-hole stretch, admitted. “I was not that far out of contention, I really should have stayed a little bit more patient than I did, but I let the head come spinning off out there. It’s not like me really.”