Criticise Harrington if you want ....

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON is learning the hard way that it’s very difficult to please everybody all of the time.

In spite of his many outstanding performances over the past few years, people especially Irish people appear to be demanding more and more of the 31-year-old Dubliner, who for the second successive year has emerged as the second best golfer on the European Tour and with the lowest stroke average over the same two seasons.

But, you are told he threw away this and threw away that. Nobody realises more than Harrington himself how it could and probably should have been a lot better. He admitted as much in his column in last week's Irish Examiner.