Group of death scares Harrington into digging up his past

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON insists he will have to get back to his match play roots if he is avoid a first-round sucker-punch at the hands of Australian heavyweight Geoff Ogilvy in the $8.5m (€6.2m) WGC –Accenture Match Play in Tucson.

But the 39-year old Dubliner also knows that even if he beats the two-time champion, it will be far from easy to emerge from the ‘group of death’, aka the Sam Snead bracket.

If he wins, he’s on course to face Tiger Woods or Thomas Bjorn in round two with in-form stars like Dustin Johnson, Mark Wilson, Bill Haas or Bubba Watson lying in wait.