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McDowell's Open Championship hopes: No Portrush, no biggie

McDowell (67) tired of 'wrestling with Portrush dilemma'

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Graeme McDowell estimates he's played Royal Portrush "probably 300 to 500 times." As for whether or not he competes in next month's Open Championship there, the 39-year-old Portrush native is no longer concerned.

"Be fun to be there, but really isn't the end of the world if I'm not," McDowell said Friday at the RBC Canadian Open.

McDowell is not currently qualified for The Open, which returns to Portrush for the first time since 1951, but he could punch his ticket Sunday at Hamilton Golf and Country Club.