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Mon 07 Jul 2007Thunderclap signals heavy weather for McDowellJohn O'Sullivanhears from Ireland's leading finisher about his late slide down the orderThe peal of thunder presaged what Graeme McDowell feared for some time, the subsequent air horn that signalled the first suspension in play during yesterday's final round of the Kappa Smurfit European Open confirming those out on the course had to return to the sanctuary of the clubhouse.