Pádraig ready to press reset

AS THE Race to Dubai now nears the victory tape, Pádraig Harrington is already in the starting blocks for next season.

A superb up-and-down bunker shot for par at the last in Sunday’s concluding UBS Hong Kong Open ended what Harrington described as “a year not to remember”.

His season began with disqualification from the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, after a TV viewer reported his ball had moved when he removed his marker, without Harrington knowing. The event prompted the R&A and USGA to enact ‘Harrington’s Rule’. He then contested a further 17 Race to Dubai counting events an 11 regular PGA Tour events with a best of third in his defence of the Iskandar Johor Open.