Pádraig Harrington is aiming to rediscover his “spark” this week when he competes in the KLM Open for the first time in 11 years.

Padraig Harrington thinks major golf titles are like buses – “when you get one a few more arrive very quickly”.

Rory McIlroy’s selective scheduling hasn’t found favour with everyone this season but figures from the third annual The Sunday Times Sport Rich List would suggest the US Open champion tends to know what he is doing.

AWARE the Irish Open would go ahead in 2011 without a title sponsor, the country’s leading players promised to do all they could to ensure the success of the championship.

WHEN Pádraig Harrington added the 2008 US PGA Championship to the British Opens of ‘07 and ‘08 many felt a wonderful era for Irish golf had reached its zenith.

TIGER WOODS and Pádraig Harrington have the opportunity to atone for recent dismal performances at the WGC Cadillac World Championship over the Blue Monster course in Doral, Florida, which starts on Thursday.

IT HAS been a while since Pádraig Harrington played a round of professional golf but that isn’t to say he has been resting on his laurels over the festive season and the turn of the year.

PADRAIG Harrington put an in different Ryder Cup and a two year winless streak behind him to bag a three-stroke victory at the Iskandar Johor Open in Malaysia yesterday.

Padraig Harrington won for the first time in over two years today following a comfortable three-stroke victory at the Iskandar Johor Open.

Padraig Harrington is on course for a first victory in two years after carding a four-under-par 68 today to open up a five-stroke lead heading into the final round of the Iskandar Johor Open.

PADRAIG Harrington will seek reassurance from the manner of his 2008 US PGA Championship victory that his first victory since then is not already out of reach following a disappointing opening round at Whistling Straits.

IT certainly was an ill wind that blew in favour of Graeme McDowell when Tiger Woods pulled out of his own tournament last week.

TWO badly hooked tee shots at the 10th and 12th holes cost Pádraig Harrington dearly in the Deutsche Bank Championship at the TPC Norton Course in Boston last night.

Jeev Milka Singh and Retief Goosen were the men in form at Doral in the WGC-CA Championship with England’s Oliver Wilson leading the European challenge midway through the opening round.