Graeme McDowell was born on 30 July 1979 and is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland.
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67 Facts About Graeme McDowell
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Graeme McDowell has a total of eleven tournament victories on the European Tour, and four on the PGA Tour, including one major championship, the 2010 US Open at Pebble Beach.
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Graeme McDowell has appeared in the top-10 in the Official World Golf Ranking, with a highest ranking position of 4th.
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Graeme McDowell was born in Portrush, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and played with Rathmore Golf Club since he was eight or nine years old.
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Graeme McDowell then studied engineering at Queen's University in Belfast, then transferred to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he played college golf through the spring of 2002.
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Graeme McDowell was a member of the Great Britain and Ireland team which retained the Walker Cup in 2001 at Sea Island, Georgia.
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Graeme McDowell turned professional in 2002 and won that season's Volvo Scandinavian Masters, which was only his fourth start on the European Tour.
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Win led to Graeme McDowell being given honorary life membership at the Royal Portrush Golf Club.
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Graeme McDowell did not win in his second season, but in 2004 he claimed the Telecom Italia Open and finished sixth on the European Tour's Order of Merit.
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Graeme McDowell was not yet a full member of the PGA Tour, but his top-50 placing in the Official World Golf Ranking ensured that he received invitations to play in many events in the United States.
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Graeme McDowell failed to finish in the top-150 in the 2006 PGA Tour money list, and decided to return to the European Tour for 2007.
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In 2008, Graeme McDowell returned to the winner's enclosure by winning first the Ballantine's Championship in South Korea, and then the Barclays Scottish Open.
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In June 2010, Graeme McDowell won the US Open at Pebble Beach, becoming the first Northern Irishman to accomplish the feat, and the first European US Open winner since Tony Jacklin in 1970.
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Graeme McDowell was the first player from the United Kingdom to win a major championship since Paul Lawrie won The Open Championship in 1999, and the first Northern Irishman to win a major since Fred Daly won the 1947 Open Championship.
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Graeme McDowell was only the second European to win the US Open since 1925.
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Graeme McDowell rose to number 13 in the world rankings, then a career high, and became the eighth European in the top 15.
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Graeme McDowell embraced his father, Kenny, on Father's Day, and almost immediately called fellow golfer Rory McIlroy to joke about a possible partnership in the 2010 Ryder Cup.
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Graeme McDowell celebrated with a large crowd, including fellow golfer Padraig Harrington, in the United States.
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Shortly after winning the US Open, Graeme McDowell joined the PGA Tour and earned a five-year exemption for winning a major.
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On Monday, 4 October 2010, Graeme McDowell was charged with putting to win on the 17th green of the 2010 Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor.
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Graeme McDowell's was the last match of the 12 player singles, with his opponent being Hunter Mahan, to win the tournament 14.
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Graeme McDowell finished the 2010 season with another win at the Andalucia Valderrama Masters and was second behind Martin Kaymer in the 2010 Race to Dubai standings.
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On 5 December 2010, Graeme McDowell beat Tiger Woods in a playoff to win the 2010 Chevron World Challenge.
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Graeme McDowell had a solid but unspectacular season in 2011 where he did not record a win on either of the main tours.
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Graeme McDowell finished third on four occasions, three on the European Tour and once on the PGA Tour.
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Graeme McDowell finished the year 16th on the European Tour's Race to Dubai, his year consisting of 17 out of 18 cuts made and five top-10 finishes.
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In May 2011, Graeme McDowell was in contention to win the PGA Tour's flagship event, The Players Championship, but shot a final round 79 to end his chances.
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In March 2012, Graeme McDowell recorded his joint best finish on the PGA Tour outside of his US Open win, when he finished as runner-up, five strokes behind Tiger Woods at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
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Two weeks later, Graeme McDowell had his best performance at The Masters, when he finished in a tie for 12th.
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Graeme McDowell shot a final round of 68 to jump up inside the top 15.
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Graeme McDowell was tied for the lead going into the final day with Jim Furyk, both playing in the final group on Sunday.
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Graeme McDowell played in the final group on Sunday for the second consecutive major championship and third time overall, alongside Scott.
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Graeme McDowell had a disappointing round of 75 and was never in contention for the championship all afternoon.
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Graeme McDowell's challenge was ended at the par five 11th, when he snap hooked his second shot into the trees left and had to take a penalty drop, costing him a bogey.
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Graeme McDowell finished the championship in a tie for 5th with fellow European Luke Donald.
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Graeme McDowell played the following week at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and reached the quarter-finals.
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Graeme McDowell played in The Honda Classic the week after and recorded his second consecutive top-10 with a T-9 finish.
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Graeme McDowell missed the cut in the Masters Tournament by one stroke, bogeying the last hole.
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Graeme McDowell entered a playoff with fellow US Open champion Webb Simpson.
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Graeme McDowell missed the cut in the European Tour's flagship event, the BMW PGA Championship.
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In 2014, Graeme McDowell continued to play on both the European Tour and PGA Tour.
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Graeme McDowell made the cut at the US Open and came close to a maiden national open win at the Irish Open where he finished in a tie for 6th.
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At the PGA Championship, Graeme McDowell made the cut finishing in a tie of 46th, subsequently competing in the FedEx Cup Playoffs, however he failed to progress to the year end Tour Championship finishing outside the top-30 in 56th place.
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Graeme McDowell subsequently competed in the Race to Dubai Final Series events on the European Tour including a tie for third in the HSBC Champions.
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Graeme McDowell finished 14th in the Race to Dubai rankings on the European Tour in 2014.
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Graeme McDowell endured one of his worst years as a professional during the 2015 season.
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In fifteen events on the PGA Tour, Graeme McDowell made only eight cuts, with just one top five finish, coming in his first tournament of the year.
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Graeme McDowell shot a final round of 73 and missed a birdie putt on the final hole, which would have earned him a place in the playoff.
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Graeme McDowell finished the 2015 season at 160th in the FedEx Cup standings and was the first time he had missed out on qualifying for the playoffs since 2010.
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In November 2015, Graeme McDowell won his third PGA Tour title at the OHL Classic at Mayakoba.
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Graeme McDowell prevailed in a sudden death playoff over Jason Bohn and Russell Knox during a Monday finish to the tournament.
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Graeme McDowell won with a birdie on the first extra hole after his five iron approach grazed the edge of the cup and left him with three-foot birdie putt.
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Graeme McDowell said afterwards that the win came at the end of a real grind in what was one of his worst calendar years as a professional.
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On 31 March 2019, Graeme McDowell won his fourth PGA Tour title at the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship in the Dominican Republic.
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On 9 June 2019, Graeme McDowell finished tied for 8th at the RBC Canadian Open and therefore qualified for the 2019 Open Championship, which was played at his home course Royal Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland.
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On 2 February 2020, Graeme McDowell won the Saudi International with a score of 12 under par.
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Graeme McDowell resigned his membership of the PGA Tour shortly before the start of play.
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Graeme McDowell hired interior designer Kristin Stape to work on his Lake Nona house: subsequently the pair began dating and were engaged in October 2012.
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However, Graeme McDowell ruled out this possibility by opting to not play in the Olympics.
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Graeme McDowell was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to golf.
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In January 2011 Graeme McDowell was photographed by Kevin Abosch for "The Face of Ireland" project.
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Graeme McDowell received his honorary degree from the University's Chancellor, the actor James Nesbitt on its Coleraine campus and in his speech to graduates, urged them to set their goals high in their careers and trust their intuition.
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