Harrington on form with his putting

THIRTEEN under par may have paled in comparison with the exploits of Tiger Woods and a number of others but it is still a decent score on a golf course measuring 7,246 yards.

Accordingly, Padraig Harrington sets off for The Belfry today in a positive frame of mind even though yesterday's 69, commendable and all as it was, lost him seven places on the leaderboard so superb was the scoring generally. Harrington finished 21st on his own to win $58,000 or 59,529. The most satisfactory aspect of the day was that at last he got his putter working and that vital area has been one of his most suspect areas over the past few months.

"I did a little work on it, thought about it and tried to be more confident about my alignment", he explained. "I still have to work on a few things and I'm happy with the way things are going. They should get even better after four days of practice and be ok by next week.