Ryder Cup: Graeme McDowell has no problem with Rory McIlroy

Graeme McDowell says there are no problems between him and Rory McIlroy ahead of the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles.

McDowell did however go on to explain that Europe’s Ryder Cup team might be better without them playing together all the time.

Captain Paul McGinley talked on Monday about splitting the Northern Irish players up after they played six matches together at Celtic Manor in 2010 and Medinah two years ago.

There had been talk of a falling out between the pair, but McDowell categorically denied that on Tuesday and went on to explain why the team might benefit from them playing with different partners at Gleneagles after winning only 2 1/2 points from six matches as a partnership.

“There’s no doubt our personal issues have been well documented the last couple of years,” he said, referring to McIlroy’s ongoing legal battle with his former management company Horizon, who still represent McDowell.

“I believe we’ve both come out of the other end of that probably better friends than we were going into it. Our personal issues are not a problem this weekend, that’s a fact.

“I think tactically, Rory and my golf dynamic has changed significantly from the first time we ever played together when perhaps (there was) the older brother-younger brother leadership role I had with him. That’s changed.

“He’s the world’s No 1 player, he’s a four-time major champion. The dynamic between him and I has changed forever. He would now be the leader of the two of us and perhaps that dynamic doesn’t work as well as it did in the past.

“Perhaps I am the kind of guy that needs that leadership role, or at least to feel on a level with the guy I am playing with.”

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