Home win is Pádraig’s goal

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON sits down at the beginning of each season and lays out his goals for the following 12 months.

Such ambitions are usually kept private but yesterday he freely admitted that winning a world championship in his native country is among those aims.

Harrington is among the star studded field for the American Express World Golf Championship at Mount Juliet - where he spent several happy years as tournament professional - and there is nobody the Irish galleries would prefer to see walk off with the first prize of €979, 113 on Sunday.