Hurting Harrington not happy after 64

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON produced an equal lowest score all season in defence of his Iskandar Johor Open but then declared the hurt of his poorest-ever season in the professional ranks.

Harrington holed a 40-foot chip-in eagle at his fourth hole and then managed six birdies with just one bogey in a seven under par 64 around the rain-softened Horizon Hills course in Johor.

It is Harrington’s lowest round since his 64 on day three of the recent Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland but it will not be recognised among his best scores due to a ‘preferred lie’ rule.