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Padraig: Interesting facts
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Padraig celebrates with Daren Clarke and Paul McGinley
Padraig celebrates with Daren Clarke and Paul McGinley
Most admired golfers?:
Mechanical ability: Nick Faldo
Intensity: Jose Maria Olazabal
Enjoyment: Severiano Ballesteros
Concentration: Bernhard Langer

Favourite film?: Pulp Fiction

Book on bedside table?:
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Holes-in-one?:
I've had three. My first was aged about 23 playing in a mothers-and-sons tournament with my mother. We won the tourament by a shot as a result!

Worst score as a pro?:
I had a 13 at the 17th at the Oxfordshire Golf Course a week after I turned pro.

The Times printed every shot I played on that hole frame-by-frame on the back page.

My mother still has it framed on the wall. Whenever I go up to visit it's always there looking at me!

Last time you topped the ball?:
Two years ago at the Volvo Masters in Spain. It was so bad it was almost a fresh air shot.

I hit a 4-wood and it must have gone about ten yards. It was on TV too! Things like that are good - they bring you back to reality.

Favourite sport other than golf?:
It varies with the season.



Introduction
In the beginning
Deciding on golf
Trainee accountant
Best advice
Interesting facts
On the Tiger

STAR TIP::

Padraig Harrington
Golfer

The night before an important round concentrate on one or two key thoughts - write them down the night before and read them before you play



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