Golf: Harrington makes early running

Ireland’s Padraig Harrington was in dreamland today as he played the first 12 holes of the Masters at Augusta - the new, mean, nasty Augusta - in six under par and led by three.

Harrington, playing in the tournament for only the third time, went to the turn in a blistering 31, only one outside the record, and then holed a 12-foot putt for his sixth birdie on the 490-yard par four 11th, one of nine holes lengthened since last April.