Golf Update: Padraig earns the card and is ready for Tiger to attack
Padraig Harrington has made the cut into the automatic selection of the European team but says he did not deserve it!
So is Padraig trying to say that Monty’s decision of considering him in the team of twelve players is wrong? Well this is not the case as the 38-year-old is a three times winner of the major in the same season, which is not a small thing. He holds the record of the victory at the open championship 2007 and the PGA championship 2008. Secondly, it is the Fed Ex points that counts and money in the bank which is associated with it. Padraig Harrington fulfils the second criterions as well, as he stands at the 55th spot of the FedEx points, which means by far he is one of the best players on the field.
The Irish has a record of appearing at the five events of this season representing Europe, which signifies that the player has all the reasons for carrying the wild card from the captain. However, there is one more thing that pushed Padraig in and that was the joint consideration of the two captains. Colin was constantly stressing Corey Pavin, the captain of the American team for giving Tiger Woods the wild card. The mind frame behind this action was that Tiger Woods is a well renowned star and with him comes a lot of media attention and glitz. Secondly, if Woods will be playing against Padraig Harrington affine challenge and drama will be witnesses on the greens of Celtic Manor.
As for Padraig Harrington’s performance at the Fedex playoffs that were taking place at the Ridgewood country club, he did not do a superb job. The 38-year-old finished only ten shots behind the leader of the round Matt Kucher and posted a round of 75, which was kind of ironical, as he flew all the way from Gleneagles to take a chance here in US. Even then, his overall stats were not near modest.
Tiger Woods, who without even trying a little still wears the crown, has made the cut in the second half of the playoffs that are taking place in Boston this week. Tiger smashed a score of four under sixty seven in the final round of the Barclays with a net aggregate of seven under 277 strokes. The Tiger whose career was in Jeopardy seems to rise again after his divorce got finalized last Monday.
According to the experts, Tiger has been delivering a very good game throughout the four day session. In fact, his ball striking showed considerable improvement and he was very confident with his drivers, moreover the striking aspect was that he showed good control over his irons, although he needs to work at his putting but on the whole, the World number one did well.
Talking to the press, Tiger said that he was satisfied with his game as he had been working with Sean Foley on his swings and he himself could notice a positive change. As for his expectations for the future playoff series, he replied that he was positive for the upcoming week, as he was beginning to come back in his form, although he needs time for it. Tiger Woods is ready for the Deutsche Bank Championship that carried a prerequisite of falling in the Top 100s. Chances are that he will deliver a modest game over there as well and the reason to justify this statement is that Tiger is familiar with the courses where the next three events are due; in fact, he holds victory at all three. The upcoming series of the Playoff are taking place at the TPC Boston, Cog Hill and East Lake Golf Club.
This is it for the two players, who are being showered special blessings from the both sides however, one is already chosen for the big Ryder Cup and the other one has to go through three more series of the playoff to get finalized but one can bet that Tiger Woods is in!
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