Padraig Harrington - 3 Time Major Winner/Ryder Cup Captain/US Senior Open Champion 2022!

abff wrote: »

It's now 6 o'clock and the website is still showing Harrington as 7 under after 16. WTF?

RTE have a live leaderboard link.

Minderbinder wrote: »

Then you have that clown Pelley talking about being innovative when they can't even put together a functioning website to keep people informed. It amazes me that they can still find sponsorship and companies are willingly giving these idiots money.

https://www.rte.ie/sport/golf/2017/0714/890314-pelley-preview/

If you listen to his interview on Newstalk from the Irish Open he accepts it is a disaster, it was contracted out, probably story-boarded, looked great but the functionality is just awful when delivered. Seems to me like the Tour had the best of intentions and the contractor f*cked up, to be fair to Pelley at least he is trying new things, the Rolex series seems to be drawing better fields so far

Nightmare today, 76 just about the worst round of the day from anyone.....

After my few weeks off it was good to get back playing, although when I was teeing off on Thursday afternoon I wasn't thinking that. The weather was brutal when we started - Richie Ramsay playing in front of me hit a good drive on the first and it went all of 174 yards! We played 5 1/2 holes before being called in and I have to say it was some of the worst conditions I've played in. The rain was chucking it down, it was blowing a gale and the ball was going nowhere. When we were called in I was level par thanks to some great putting.
That ended up being all the play we got on Thursday. It meant a long day of golf for us on Friday, but that was a big result considering how tough it was on Thursday afternoon. When we went back out on Friday it was much better, we got a few showers but nothing too bad. I finished off my first round and shot 1 over. The funny thing was that the previous day in the bad conditions I was holing everything but on Friday morning I wasn't able to buy a putt. I was hitting good putts, but they just wouldn't drop for me.
My second round I played pretty similar to how I played in the morning, but holed a few more putts and managed to shoot 1 under par to make the cut on the mark at level par. I was 1 under with 3 to play and cruising but a bad bogey on my 17th had me sweating down my last hole. In the end I had to 2 putt my last, the ninth, from about 80 feet to make the cut. As it turned out, in my match in practise with Dunners on Tuesday I had a very similar putt and found it to be slow. On Friday I hit the putt stone dead which was purely down to having hit it the same putt earlier in the week.
I played similar over the weekend but scored a little better. Rounds of 70 and 69 meant that I finished the week on 4 under, which was a long way off the leaders but over the course of the week I made two double bogies and a treble. I Nicole Flabby Sludge the 9th in my first round from the fairway bunker by not paying enough attention to the lip. On Saturday I made a treble on the 2nd after pulling my drive into tress left. I tried to play it but left it in it and then had to take a penalty drop in them. Then in my final round I played a sloppy chip on the 5th into the greenside bunker and took three to get down from there for another double bogey.
For me there were a lot of good signs during the week. I hit my irons well all week and my proximity to the flag would have been very good. As the week went on I was getting more and more confident with my irons. Where I struggled a little bit was off the tee - I was afraid of the left side all week and ended up hitting a few right because of it. I'll work on this when I get to Portugal as Pete Cowen will be there. I was thinking about it and I may go back to stepping through as this helps with that problem for me.
The course in Holland played great last week. It was in super condition and it drained well considering the rain we had. I would say I would love to play it when it is hard and fast as it's supposed to be, as it would be a totally different test. As it was soft last week it meant that you could fire at the pins without being too worried about the consequences.
While I'm disappointed that I didn't have a better week in terms of my performance, I am happy with the majority of my game. I need to do a small bit of work with Pete when I get to Portugal but other than that I just need to be playing.
Talk soon,
Padraig.

Watched the short game clinic with paddy on facebook last night. such a legend.

A few viewers asked which club they should be chipping him, paddy's answer "whatever you practice with". He seems to use the 58 for most greenside shots. He also knifed a chip shot about 30 yards and blamed his lack of practice.

This week I am in Monza for the Italian Open, which is now part of the Rolex Series. As a result of the elevated stature of the tournament the quality of the field has significantly improved.
I have played here the last two years and I have to say I like the course. It is an old style golf course, which by today’s tournament standards is short, but it has other defences. The greens are very small and the course moves through the trees exceptionally well. There is a great mix of holes here, ones that you have to lay up on from the tee and then ones that you can take on with driver. With the small greens it is a big advantage to be coming off the fairway, the bit of control you lose from the rough makes getting close to the flag difficult. If you manage to hit a lot of greens this week then you are going to be in good shape.
I got here on Monday morning but wasn’t able to do any practice as my golf clubs didn’t make it onto my flight. It was Tuesday afternoon before I got them but I wasn’t too stressed as I know the course and was in the Wednesday pro am. They turned up just in time for me to play 9 holes with Shane Lowry and Paul Dunne, although seeing as Shane won the skins I’m wishing they hadn’t.
The course is in much better condition this year than last. Last year we had a terrible week of rain and it took its toll on the course. This year the forecast is great, no rain and very little wind. Perfect golfing weather! Tuesday and Wednesday were like this too and you couldn’t ask for better in terms of playing.
I’m looking forward to playing this week, especially after missing the cut in the Dunhill last week. My game is in good shape and bar last week, has been showing good signs.
I’m playing early on Thursday and late on Friday with Alex Levy and Lucas Bjerrgard. I have played many times with Alex but never with Lucas. I’m interested to see him up close as I have heard a lot of good things about his game.
Talk soon,
Padraig.

-5 for his round Tru 9,-10 overall . He's back!