More injury worries for Harrington
Padraig Harrington signalled to his wife that he had hurt his neck yet again as he set off in the second round of the BMW Championship at Wentworth today.
The world number 10 had been worried he might miss last week’s Irish Open after suffering a recurrence of a problem that dogged him last season.
Harrington recovered sufficiently to finish joint fifth and on his return to Wentworth and an event he has skipped the last two years because of his poor record, the Ryder Cup star was in contention after an opening two under par 70.
That put him only three behind fellow Dubliner Peter Lawrie, Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell and Portugal’s Jose-Filipe Lima.
Harrington opened with two pars while playing partners Scott Drummond and David Howell each had a bogey to slip back to level par and one under respectively.
Drummond, shock winner of the title last year, pushed his drive into the rough down the first and could not make the green, while Howell saved par after coming up short from the rough as well, but then took four on the short second.
First of the leaders back on the course was McDowell, who parred the first, while 2003 Open champion Ben Curtis, the only American in the field and a player striving to recapture form after a desperate season so far, stayed at four under with three pars.
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