Harrington hoping to regain top status

Pádraig Harrington embarks on a 19th full season in the professional ranks at the Volvo Champions event in Durban this week bidding to recapture former glories.

Like the majority in the elite 36-player field, Harrington could not have wished for a better format to begin a new season than the no-cut and guaranteed prizemoney tournament.

“This is a great event to come to as you’re guaranteed four rounds of competitive golf and the opportunity of basically finding where your game is. It’d be nice to play well but at the end the week, you’d like to have a semblance of getting your game back to where it maybe was at the end of last year.