Padraig Harrington has joined three of his Irish golfing heroes in winning the Golf Writers’ Trophy for 2007.

Padraig Harrington has revealed the aftermath of his dramatic Open triumph left him on the edge of breaking point as he prepares to defend his title at the Alfred Dunhill Links championships.

Open champion Padraig Harrington has won the European Tour’s shot of the month award for July.

Andres Romero produced more of the erratic but exciting golf which almost brought him a shock Open victory in the Deutsche Bank Players’ Championship today.

THEY are both masters at the art of playing their way out of trouble against all the odds.

Padraig Harrington admits he would have found it impossible to recover if he had blown his chance of Open glory on an extraordinary final day at Carnoustie yesterday.

Sergio Garcia and Padraig Harrington were tonight contesting a four-hole play-off for the Open Championship after an extraordinary final day at Carnoustie.

Sergio Garcia overcame early nerves and retained his two-stroke lead in the Open at Carnoustie today – with more than a little help from an off-form Tiger Woods.

Sergio Garcia overcame early nerves and remained the man to catch in the Open at Carnoustie today – with more than a little help from an off-form Tiger Woods.

While others may well have cursed and stormed off, Padraig Harrington refused to let a closing double-bogey six depress him in the Open at Carnoustie today.

Eight years after Jean Van de Velde blew the Open with a closing triple-bogey seven, another Frenchman took eight on the same hole today.

THERE was joy and pain for the home crowd at the French Open as Jean van de Velde revisited the trauma of his 1999 British Open nightmare to allow defending champion Jean-Francois Remesy to retain his title in a play-off.