Pressure on Harrington to end title drought
Harrington, without a tournament win since August 2008, returns to action this week in the St Jude Classic in Memphis, Tennessee, having spent time in Barbados on a family holiday recuperating from minor knee surgery.
He will have noted a few salient points as he lay in the sun, not least that he is outside the nine automatic Ryder Cup qualifying spots, that he has fallen outside the world top ten and that the limelight is being stolen by players shooting unbelievably low numbers.