Putting a perspective on success on fringes of the Major league

It’s torture and in a way he’s tortured, but Pádraig Harrington has the good grace and awareness to realise he’s still one of the lucky ones.

Putting a perspective on success on fringes of the Major league

Last Wednesday on the often irreverent but always relevant Second Captains Live, Harrington gave an insight on the pain of missing out on playing in a Major last weekend but also the solace of always knowing and always been known as a man who won three Majors before.

Maybe it’s because he was mindful of another piece of brilliant television he’s contributed to tomorrow. In The Long Walk, a two-part documentary directed by the award-winning Garry Keane, Harrington reflects on the life of the struggling pro, knowing he’s not one of them. The struggling pro is the guy trying to stay on the European Tour, or get on the European Tour and get off the Challenge Tour, or get on the Challenge Tour and off the UK-based EuroProTour.

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