He would be joining the likes of fellow Antrim golfer Tom McKibbin, Tyrrell Hatton and Victor Perez, who as part of a settlement, agreed to pay off the fines due and must play in at least six DP events, two of which are dictated by the European body.<\/p>\n
“I have my previous fines all paid off, but I’m sort of at a kind of zero level with the DP World Tour,” McDowell, the 2010 US Open champion, said.<\/p>\n
“There is a May date where you can approach the Tour and ask for a membership, which is at the discretion of the CEO.<\/p>\n
“At that point I’d ask them what they’d want me to do, how many events that might look like and see if that is a workload that I’m willing to take.<\/p>\n
“Clearly I miss the Irish Open, I miss being able to play a few of those events in September and October like the Dunhill Links, events that I care about a lot, so I’ll certainly ask the question and see what that looks like for me.<\/p>\n
“I’d love to have the conversation with the DP World about the opportunity to go to Ireland and play with Rory [McIlroy] and Shane [Lowry] – that’s definitely something I miss.”<\/p>\n
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\nMcDowell helped Europe win the Ryder Cup in 2010<\/p>\n
McDowell competed twice at the Ryder Cup, famously holing the winning point for Europe in the 2010 renewal, and featured as a vice-captain in 2018 and 2021.<\/p>\n
A desire to get involved in the competition, which takes place next year in Adare Manor, is also a factor for the 46-year-old, who admitted the current rules may not allow him to partake in Limerick as Europe defend their title.<\/p>\n
“I understand bringing LIV players creates negative narratives that we don’t want and need there, but if the door is open I would do anything to support the team,” he added.<\/p>\n
“People will say that I don’t deserve to be there. I’ve made my bed, I should sleep in it, which is true – but I feel fortunate to have this opportunity to be out here on LIV competing, obviously for a lot of money against some good players on a good schedule.<\/p>\n
“I’m happy with what I’m doing and I understand the reasons why the Ryder Cup may not happen in any shape or form. I’ve made my peace with that a little bit.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graeme McDowell is considering a return to the DP World Tour, citing a desire to take part in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-376540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}