Harrington makes useful start

Padraig Harrington took a share of the early clubhouse lead in Connecticut as the first wave of players completed their opening rounds at the Travelers Championship.

With Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell following Justin Rose and Lee Westwood and completing a hat-trick of successive European victories in the United States last week when he won the US Open at Pebble Beach, Irishman Harrington kept the flag flying with an opening six-under-par 64 at TPC River Highlands near Hartford.