Golf Channel · Jul 21, 2019
G-Mac wants quick return to Royal Portrush, hears 'whispers' it might happen
McDowell (77): The Open was 'everything I thought it could be x 10'
0:006:26PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland – Despite a driving rain on Sunday and a final-round 77, Graeme McDowell, who grew up next door to Royal Portrush at Rathmore Golf Club, wasted no time starting the call for The Open’s return to this seaside vacation village.
This year’s championship was the first played in Northern Ireland since 1951 thanks in large part to the subtle lobbying of McDowell and fellow Northern Irishmen Rory McIlroy and Darren Clarke. Following what has been, by all accounts, a successful week, McDowell began what promises to be a steady drumbeat for a return.