Pádraig Harrington: ‘I’m prepared to put my golfing legacy on the line’

Anyone who has followed the illustrious playing career of Pádraig Harrington and listened to his intense desire to get things right these past 15 years, or so, will have no doubt he is the right man to lead Europe into the next Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin 20 months from now.

Yet, while the man himself has cast-iron self-belief in his abilities, his admission that he was taking the European captaincy for 2020 with trepidation and only after considerable thought was also typically Harringtonian.