Padraig harrington how many majors

Other Wins. Profile Following a successful amateur career, including winning the Walker Cup in at Royal Porthcawl in one of his three Walker Cup appearances, Padraig turned professional in September and immediately secured his European Tour card, shortly before gaining his maiden tour victory at the Spanish Open after only 10 events as a professional.

Go to Top. Born : Dublin, Ireland. Cancel anytime. More questions for you When was Titleist founded? Recent Questions. What's included in the free Golf Digest digital newsletters? What is a chipper golf club? Register your interest. Walk up and down the range at a major championship and you won't come across many deep thinkers. Harrington is one of the exceptions. He has always been analytical, pulling things apart and piecing them together with the enthusiastic curiosity of a scientist.

Some have said a mad scientist. Last year one sympathetic but mischievous Irish journalist listed every single swing "issue" Harrington said he was working on at a particular time: there were more than The orthodoxy holds it is never a good idea for a professional golfer to be working on more than one or two "swing thoughts" at a given time.

There was a similar theme at the start of this year, when Harrington admitted he had "10 coaches" helping him with his game.

Admittedly, his definition of "coach" included his nutritionist and his wife, Caroline, but still — Jack Nicklaus ruled the world with one coach, Jack Grout, whom he consulted once or twice a year. Despite the potential for mockery and, more seriously, paralysis by over-analysis, the Irishman ploughs on. In the middle of last year he parted company with Torrance after more than a decade together. It was the hardest thing I have ever had to do," he says.

Very impressive. Dave is a man who has very limited time and I am lucky that I was able to grab some of it," he says. As for what exactly they are working on together Harrington is, for once, reticent. In essence they are developing a more structured practice regime which will help the Irishman take his good form out on to the course.

He is interested in getting out there and doing the work, which is exactly right for me. I love to work. They had only had a few sessions in the time they have been together but already there appears to have been a marked effect. But, we also cannot ignore the fact the between late and early , Woods was on one of the most dominant streaks of his career and probably one of the most dominate streaks in the history of the game.

In , Woods won four out of the six tournaments he played in including his improbable win at the US Open in June before shutting it down for the season. The great thing about sports is that it is impossible to precisely predict the outcome; that is why they play the game. Who would have every thought Greg Norman would have been leading the British Open with just nine holes to play?