G-Mac: Attack the best form of defence

DEFENDING the US Open in a fortnight’s time is the big date coming up for Graeme McDowell, but first comes this week’s SAAB Wales Open — and he wants to win that again too.

McDowell’s name will always be associated with Celtic Manor for his Ryder Cup heroics last October.

But it was over the same course that the greatest year of the Irishman’s life was kick-started four months earlier and now he is back looking for the same boost in confidence that he took away then.