Padraig Harrington: Anybody who helps JP out will become a friend to JP

How is it that a field like for the JP McManus Pro-Am can be so turned on to a non-competitive gathering in the southwest of Ireland in the middle of the season’s primetime?

BACK ON HOME SOIL: Padraig Harrington will be competing in the Irish Open and the JP McManus Pro-Am in the next week.

Professional golf may be tearing itself apart but the cream of the game’s crop will still pitch up as one happy family for two days in rural Limerick early next week for the star-studded JP McManus Pro-Am.

Players from the nouveau-riche LIV Golf experiment will rub shoulders with compatriots still wedded to the two traditional tours at Adare Manor. In all, ten of the world’s top eleven male professionals will be on site. Half of the world’s top 50.