News Info : US Open Golf 2010 Graeme Mcdowell Girlfriend

In any other era the Portrush man would be the one hogging the headlines, although with his easy-going nature it’s easy to suspect he’s perfectly happy to leave the limelight to others.

No wonder, therefore, that the Americans have greeted the green invasion of their scoreboards this past month with all the enthusiasm of a riotous tee party: Padraig Harrington's victory in the Honda Classic a fortnight ago; Des Smyth's maiden win on the Seniors Tour the same day; Darren Clarke's eye-catching pants at Bay Hill last week, a triumph of sartorial inelegance. And then there's Graeme McDowell.

Graeme McDowell does this every year in early July. Not the fry bit, just the ferry bit. The week of the Scottish Open, he loads up the Range Rover on the Monday, drives the hour from Portrush to Larne, rolls onto P&O's finest for an hour and hey presto he has his own car in the drive for a fortnight. He has his clubs in the boot so he doesn't have to spend an hour and a couple of hundred quid dragging them through an airport even 29 year old multi-millionaires resent lining the anti-golfer pockets of Ryanair and Easyjet at this point and better yet, he can live out the next two weeks without being a slave to the rhythms of the tour. Logistics become a whole lot simpler when you're not relying on a courtesy car timetable.

Ernie Els and Gregroy Havret are tied for fourth at par, and Phil Mickelson had to settle for sixth place at plus one after a not-so-good round yesterday. Phil Mickelson seems to play brilliantly one day and poorly the next. If he follows that trend, he could wind up winning today.