PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON suffered a recurrence of a long running neck injury but shrugged off the concern despite an adventurous first round in the Barclays Singapore Open.

RORY McILROY suspects he might still have been unable to catch runaway eight-shot winner Louis Oosthuizen no matter what happened in Friday’s second round, but he also realises his failure to cope with the dreadful conditions cost him, at the very least, a serious chance of challenging for the claret jug.