McDowell’s dream season just keeps getting better

THE HONOURS keep coming for Graeme McDowell.

The latest accolade came yesterday when he won the prestigious Association of Golf Writers’ Golfer of the Year award.

Joe Carr was the first Irish player to be chosen for the award after he captured the first of his three British Amateur Championships in 1953 and he was succeeded in 1958 by Harry Bradshaw; Christy O’Connor Senior in 1977 and Pádraig Harrington in 2007 and ‘08.