‘Mental case’ McDowell ‘in need of an attitude readjustment’

SPORTS psychologist Bob Rotella may have straightened Darren Clarke’s head out this week at Royal St George’s, but he is going to have his hands full with Graeme McDowell and Padraig Harrington for the next while following a couple of brain-mangling rounds at the British Open yesterday.

McDowell’s second-round 77 left him at five over par while a one-over-par 71 saw Harrington also miss the halfway cut on four over.

McDowell’s seven-over round of five bogeys and one double bogey, a six taken at the 412-yard ninth, left the former US Open champion calling himself “a bit of a mental case out there and in need of an attitude readjustment”.