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Encouraging top 12 finishes for Power and McDowell

GRAEME MCDOWELL and Seamus Power headed for Mexico with high hopes after finishing 12th behind Dubai Duty Free Irish Open champion Lucas Herbert in the Butterfield Bermuda Championship.

Encouraging top 12 finishes for Power and McDowell

McIlroy takes control and seizes his destiny

Gary McDowell, Graeme McDowell, Rory McIlroy and Gerry McIlroy prepare to fee off for the second round of the 2011 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Picture, Stuart Adams, www.golftourimages.comIt’s hard to know which is the bigger story - ‘Rory McIlroy ditches Chubby Chandler ’ or ‘Boutique Irish management company lands another US Open champion.’

The news, broken to Chandler by McIlroy in JFK airport on Wednesday night, came as a shock to the ISM founder. In truth, neither McIlroy’s exodus nor Horizon’s elevation to global player should come as a huge surprise to anyone.