Harrington gets confidence boost

CAROLINE Harrington was the toast of the Harrington family on Sunday evening after her husband qualified in incredible fashion for the lucrative FedEx Cup play-off on the PGA US Tour.

Husband Pádraig may have hit the shots and holed the putts that enabled him claim the 124th and second last qualifying spot for the multi million dollar event but he wouldn’t have been in North Carolina for the Wyndham Championship only for her urgings.

The plan was to take a family holiday in the Bahamas after the USPGA Championship but when Harrington was well off the pace at the halfway stage of that event, Caroline intervened and advised that he should post a late entry for the Wyndham in a bid to secure qualification for the FedEx Cup play-off.