Pádraig ready to rewrite fiction

PÁDRAIG Harrington is set to make Masters history here today. He tied with David Toms for the Par 3 title in 2003 and won it outright after a play-off against Eduardo Romero last year.

Now he is intent on becoming the first man to complete a hat-trick of victories in the 'short course' event since it was instituted in 1960.

If that seems a rather foolhardy ambition given that the winner of the Par 3 has never gone on to capture the Masters itself, try telling that to Harrington who dismissed such talk as "baloney".