Late collapse just ‘a blip’ insists G-Mac

GRAEME MCDOWELL last night dismissed his last round collapse in the US Players Championship as “a blip on the radar” and placed it a long way behind Rory McIlroy’s Masters meltdown last month.

McDowell is one of the six players in the field for the Volvo World Match Play Championship starting at Finca Cortesin tomorrow who enjoys top nine status in the world rankings. Just as McIlroy showed his mettle by getting into contention in Malaysia on the week immediately after the Masters, McDowell is intent on doing the same on this occasion, his confidence boosted by a liking for matchplay golf and for a course that he saw for the first time yesterday.

“I was very disappointed at my finish in the Players but that’s all behind me now,” McDowell declared. “I think Rory’s Sunday afternoon at Augusta was very different from my afternoon at the Players. For a start, that was the Masters.