Padraig Harrington.....2015 Honda Classic Champion

blackwaterfish wrote: »

So what happened in the final round at Doral?

i got no concept whatsoever from the coverage of how he was playing.... from watching it on shot tracker it looked to me like he was throwing caution to the wind and really going for it off the tee... saying that.. i suppose you cant really get a grasp of a players strategy from shot tracker..... but he looked like he played a lot of good golf. But then theres the monumental brain farts on the card too.

anyhoo, the only coverage of his round i saw, during which he holed several birdies & an eagle, was a glimpse of him missing a putt for par on what i think was the 15th... the next player we see is prolonged coverage of jjohnathan vegas sinking a putt for par... he was on -2 at the time... more than 10 shots back...... wtf!?

golf is becoming more & more intolerable to watch - but thats a rant for another day.

so what happened to PH? was he really going for it? or was it another series of brain farts that ruled the day.

His card shows 1 eagle, 3 birds, 3 bogeys and the now obligatory triple.

anyway, despite the +1 final round.. i think this wknd was definate step forward.

Aidric wrote: »

What he really needs is a new caddy.

conno16 wrote: »

he does not have the ability to challenge and beat golfers within the top 10.

Mister Sifter wrote: »

Not such a daft post. He was struggling with a wrist injury and couldn't practice in run up to Birkdale.

He also had a sore neck last year around the time of the Johor Open so could be it's a recurring problem.

SEORG wrote: »

From PGA website


A real pain in the neck

By Melanie Hauser, PGATOUR.COM Correspondent
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Padraig Harrington never got warmed up Thursday morning.
In fact, he almost didn’t make it to the first tee.
Harrington was swinging left-handed to loosen up when he felt the pain. He left range to get his neck worked on, made it to the tee and shot 77.
Harrington


"It just kind of clicked and I’m not able to move to my right,” he said. "… I went back in, I didn’t get a warm‑up really at all. I spent about two minutes on the putting green and I really couldn’t do my warm‑up at all because I had to get back out and get treatment and all that.”
He didn’t take any painkillers.
"I was hoping it would go away, it actually got worse on the course,” said the three-time major champ. "Maybe I should have taken the pain killers. There you go. It didn’t cross my mind.
"But I couldn’t keep my head in position at impact. I had to come up on all my shots. And when you’re doing that you can hit it right and left.”
Harrington did birdie the fifth to get to 1 under but bogeyed the sixth and double-bogeyed the seven to jump to 2 over at the turn. He bogeyed his way around Amen Corner, birdied Nos. 15 and 16, then doubled the 18th.
He knows it will take a miracle to make the cut.
"Absolutely,” he said. "You know, it’s tough when you can’t hit the shots, yeah. It would be just hard enough to make up the numbers, but as it is, you know, we’ll see how it goes.”
This isn’t the first time he’s been troubled with neck pain. It started at the 2002 PGA at Hazeltine.
"It’s very much under control now,” he said. " I do a lot of work on it. And it doesn’t give me too much trouble during the year. But it’s always going to happen. You know, sometimes. And I would love to tell you that there’s more I could do, let’s say, aside from cutting my head off.”
But there isn’t. And, no, withdrawing wasn’t an option.
"I wouldn’t,” he said. "That’s just my nature. I would always have a go. But it wasn’t much fun.”
The toughest thing? He felt like he could contend this year.
"It’s very disappointing,” he said. "I prepared very well, I was in good form, but it was not to be. Such is life."

hawkelady wrote: »

Excuses lads, excuses.... ph has them all. if his neck was as bad as he has said he couldnt play 18 holes at Augusta, he would just nr.
If he shot a low score his "injury" wouldnt have been such a talking point.
He was spraying the ball everywhere with power. if you have a bad strain on the neck, there is no way you could hit that ball like he was. Im not saying he doesnt have a slight pain but to blame his +5 solely on his blooming neck is a cop out..........

hawkelady wrote: »

good man martin, im as much of an expert as you are,I suppose

only im saying ph wont win another thing worth talking about,unless he plays in some island off Thailand against some part time golfers,

your saying that he will come good,,next week or the week after!!

PH is proving me right atm!! dont you think.