Tiger tamer cracking the whip

GRAEME McDOWELL moved to seventh in the world rankings and enhanced his chances of claiming the BBC’s Sportsman of the Year award with victory in the Chevron World Challenge in California on Sunday night.

His fourth title of the year, was worth $1.2m (€901,000) to the Portrush star who looked shocked by the manner in which he deprived Tiger Woods of his last chance of a tournament win in 2010.

Woods was gracious afterwards saying he was: “proud of the way I played even though I didn’t win, it was a great week.”