Pádraig pleased with 'good' 24th second

SECOND for the 24th time in his career and second for the fourth time this year.

A less positive and optimistic person than Pádraig Harrington might get down in himself when he peruses such a statistic. But the 32-year-old Dubliner, quite rightly, rated this "a good 2nd" after shooting a closing round of 67 in yesterday's final round of the Nissan Irish Open at Baltray.

Yet he still fell four strokes short of the highly impressive winner, the little-known Australian Brett Rumford, who celebrates his 27th birthday tomorrow, and is now the richer by €316,660.