Harrington aiming to emulate McDowell

PEBBLE BEACH gave Irish golf one of its greatest moments last summer when Graeme McDowell lifted the US Open and now Pádraig Harrington will be hoping some of that magic rubs off on him this week.

After two events in the Middle East – one of them a controversial disqualification – Harrington starts his PGA Tour campaign at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-am.

The Dubliner, whose last success in America was his 2008 US PGA triumph, believes the time has come to concentrate more on just playing the game rather than thinking about all the changes he made prior to the season.