Pádraig’s Happy Gilmore could just swing it

WITH all the discussion about Pádraig Harrington changing his swing, it’ll unsettle some that the Open champion had consulted a golf comedy, as shown in the picture sequence above.

Thanks to (or because of) ‘Happy Gilmore’, Harrington discovered that running up to his tee shot added up to 30 yards to his drives and above pictures show that he has been perfecting the technique in practice.

Actor – a term used loosely but one which should be emphasised in this case – Adam Sandler drove his ball 400 yards with a run-up on the big screen and now the ‘Happy Harrington’ swing has even been filmed on TV. Fox Sports took him to a sports laboratory in California and discovered it increases distance by 10%.