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Byline: Ken Auletta

The 15-storey Montevetro building is Dublin's tallest office block, its sleek design cutting a swathe across the dockland skyline. Modern, edgy and so very cool, the building wears its dark glass and yellow highlights like a rock star's shades. Among all the glass and angles that make up the post-modern world of the Grand Canal district, the Montevetro is the one to look up to. All the more so now new owners have moved in. Internet giant Google swooped last February, buying the most high-tech office in the country from Nama for [euro]99.9m - the biggest commercial property transaction since the bust. Their offices in an area that has become known as Google-land had become too small so the deal was a perfect fit.

Expansion for Googlers - the mix of Irish and international staff who drive this global juggernaut's European operations from the in his first seven holes with three double bogeys is a sign of a worrying trend in his game. 'I seem to be making more double and triple bogeys this season than I have done for years,' he said.

'I need to address that and understand why that is happening.

There are some mental areas of my game that I have got to assess. 'When it's going wrong for some reason, I don't really dig deep at the moment.

'It was a really disappointing day because I felt like I was in control of my game and I got very swiftly out of control. There has been a little bit of a flavour of that this season. I have been very impatient with myself when it goes wrong.' It was at the 12th hole where it all went wrong for McDowell. He left his second shot at the bottom of a steep bank beside the green and, when a spectator reported foul play, he could have found himself two shots worse off. Instead of the quadruple bogey eight, he could have carded a shocking 10 after what appeared to be a rules infraction.

The viewer thought McDowell had attempted to improve his lie by tapping down his divot as the second attempted chip rolled back towards his feet.

It was a similar scenario to an incident earlier this year where Camilo Villegas was disqualified from a tournament in Hawaii.

However, after listening to McDowell's explanation, referee Paramor accepted there was no intent in his action in repairing the turf where he had played his shot, whereas Villegas had picked up a leaf and tossed it aside.

McDowell's collapse left the way open for Swede Alex Noren to take a one shot lead into today's final round after shooting a level par 71.

And chasing him closest, a shot back, will be another Swede Peter Hanson and Denmark's Anders Hansen.

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world at their feet: Google co-founders Sergey Brin, left, Larry Page, far right, and CEO Eric Schmidt