Mentally I’m getting in my own way, says Harrington

Pádraig Harrington embarks on his 16th PGA Championship campaign today striving to recover the mental strength to stop him "getting in my own way".

The three-time Major winner, whose victory in this tournament in 2008 at Oakland Hills was the first by a European golfer in the event since Scotland’s Tommy Armour in 1930, is set to tee off at Valhalla in today’s first round (1:35pm Irish time) alongside fellow former champions Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.

Yet while the Dubliner feels his golf is in great shape it is what’s going on between the ears that is troubling him right now.