McDowell takes the blame for two-stroke penalty

In contrast to Rory McIlroy’s club-throwing antics, Graeme McDowell showed remarkable grace under pressure as he closed bogey-par-triple bogey at Wentworth.

McDowell’s eight at the last included a two-stroke penalty having sent his ball right into trees, where he found it “hovering in some branches”.

His ball moved as he approached it, breaching Rule 18-2, even though he was some feet away from it. Because he did not replace it he was adjudged by European Tour chief referee John Paramor to have broken Rule 20-7, playing from the wrong place, the penalty superseding that for the original misdemeanour.