"We are living through a golden era for Irish golf."

Karl MacGinty on Graeme McDowell and Irish golf.

Yet the rockiest road in golf has led McDowell into a new world of sporting celebrity. For example, the producers of hit TV series Entourage are keen for McDowell and his new best friend, the gleaming US Open trophy, to take a cameo role in the final episode, which is being recorded in LA today.

After a whirlwind round of media engagements in Los Angeles, his agent at Dublin firm Horizon Sports Management hopes to get McDowell and the trophy home to Belfast by tomorrow, at the earliest, so the process of celebrating his phenomenal victory can truly begin.

Tinseltown was furthest from McDowell's mind as he fought grimly for his place in the history books on Sunday afternoon — in the process becoming the first European since Tony Jacklin in
1970 and just the fifth in all to win the US Open.

We are living through a golden era for Irish golf.

McDowell was also set to appear on the Tonight Show with Leno. Video should be up sometime tomorrow.