Harrington ‘trusts’ game but plays down chances

PADRAIG HARRINGTON may have turned a corner with his game of late but with one day left before the Masters gets under way at Augusta National, he has played down suggestions he is ready to add to his three-major haul with immediate effect.

The changes to Harrington’s game have been made over the last months and years since the Irishman won three majors in six starts between 2007-08 and he got back on the winning trail for the first time again last October. Speaking two weeks ago at his home club Stackstown, he said he was never happier with his game and on the eve of the first major of the year, with his best finish of the season, a T8 at last Sunday’s Shell Houston Open, fresh in the memory, 39-year-old Harrington promised more majors in the years to come, only maybe just not yet.

“This is the week of the Masters. You want to bring your game this week. There is an element of me that I’m happy and wouldn’t have changed anything coming into this,” Harrington said. “But I think I could be a better player over the next couple of months too.