Pádraig’s plan is swinging into action

THOUGH some of his keenest supporters feared Pádraig Harrington would never return to the major championship winning form of 2007 and 2008 the man himself has insisted throughout a summer of swing changes that he ‘will have the last laugh’.

There were times when he must have wondered if he was travelling down the right road mapped out by swing coach Bob Torrance and sports psychologist Dr Bob Rotella.

But now that he has tied second in two of his last three tournaments, the highly competitive WGC Bridgestone and the Barclays, he is entitled to smile quietly to himself and feel vindicated.