Just when you think things can’t get much worse...

LICKING his wounds after another bitter disappointment is becoming all too familiar for Pádraig Harrington.

The latest ignominy came at Bethpage on Saturday when a section of the rowdy New York crowd appeared to jeer him after he fluffed a chip at the 8th. It sounded as if a few supporters gave him the exact cheer that a Boston Red Sox player usually gets in New York: “Booooo.”

Harrington himself denied it ever happened, claiming: “I wasn’t booed at the 8th, I don’t remember, it didn’t happen.”