Re-motivated Graeme McDowell eager to relive Pebble Beach high

Graeme McDowell is not the first golfer to have lost motivation in his career due to positive changes in his life away from the course but the former US Open champion admitted last night he considered actually quitting the game such was his wish to be at home with his new wife and their baby.

McDowell has talked at length in the recent past about his lack of motivation at work when his life is so pleasurable at home in Florida with wife Kristin and daughter Vale but as he returns to the major championship he won at Pebble Beach in 2010 he is sufficiently rejuvenated on the golf course to describe the doubts about his future in the game that crept in during a run of poor form earlier this year.

“It’s kind of one of those things that you never think is going to happen to you, I suppose.