For a time, Pádraig Harrington had that strut of old, a confident farmer’s walk and a grin breaking across his 50-year-old face as if he’d stepped back in time at Augusta on the opening day of the Masters.
Nowhere was his facial expression more like his old self than when audaciously holing out from nearly 70 feet on the par-3 sixth hole for the unlikeliest of par saves, an act that perhaps intimated it could be his day.
Alas, it wouldn’t prove to be.
As dogged as the Dubliner proved in an impressive front nine of 35 strokes, turning in one under par after claiming three birdies and two bogeys …
- April 8, 2022
