G-Mac: I’ll kiss Wanamaker when I’ve earned it

After recently reluctantly agreeing to be photographed with the Claret Jug in France, Graeme McDowell will turn down a request to pose with the Rodman Wanamaker Trophy, the prize in capturing next week’s USPGA Championship.

McDowell was asked ahead of this week’s WGC–Bridgestone Invitational if he would join a list of stars competing next week in Louisville, Kentucky to be photographed with golf’s heaviest trophy in a promotional exercise.

But McDowell is reluctant to oblige: “They want us in the locker room next week to pick up the Wanamaker Trophy, and hug it and kiss it and do all these things but then part of me doesn’t want to do that,” he said.