‘It was so much fun’: Pádraig Harrington and Shane Lowry charge into PGA Championship top-five

"It was one of the best days I've had on the golf course."

Padraig Harrington and Shane Lowry fist bump after Harrington played his tee shot on the 17th hole at Kiawah Island. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

It wasn’t quite the bonkers show that Phil Mickelson and Brooks Koepka were putting on in the last group of the day, but a couple of Irishman provided an entertaining warm-up act on Sunday at the PGA Championship.

Pádraig Harrington and Shane Lowry played together two-and-a-half hours in front of the headliners and went on their own wild ride up the leaderboard in the changing winds that swept from the opposite direction on the Ocean Course en route to a share of the clubhouse lead.