Harrington loses playoff in Bermuda

Padraig Harrington, five clear at one point, lost to US Open champion Angel Cabrera at the third hole of a sudden-death play-off in the four-man 36-hole PGA Grand Slam at Mid-Ocean in Bermuda today.

The Open champion was one in front with only the par-five 18th to come in the second round. He birdied it, but Cabrera made eagle and so they tied on the four-under mark of 136.

The same hole was then parred by both men, as was the short 17th - but on returning to the long 18th for the third time in the day, Cabrera won first prize with a birdie four.

Jim Furyk was third and Masters winner Zach Johnson fourth.

Harrington held the five-stroke lead when he resumed with a birdie three against Cabrera's triple-bogey seven.

But the Dubliner saw that disappear when he double-bogeyed the ninth, and Cabrera's birdie-eagle finish gave him a second successive 68 to Harrington's 69.

Harrington was the first European to qualify for the event since Paul Lawrie and Jose Maria Olazabal in 1999, but Ian Woosnam remains the last European winner.

That was in 1991 when he defeated John Daly, Ian Baker-Finch and Payne Stewart.