THOUGH some of his keenest supporters feared Pádraig Harrington would never return to the major championship winning form of 2007 and 2008 the man himself has insisted throughout a summer of swing changes that he ‘will have the last laugh’.

IT was little more than 24 hours since he arrived home in triumph from the Westchester Classic in New York, but no one was surprised to see Pádraig Harrington or his Scottish coach Bob Torrance on The K Club practice range.