Padraig Harrington.....2015 Honda Classic Champion

FixdePitchmark · 15-06-2013 7:08pm

Lads , I know his putting is ropey but do we over-react for him.

Ive seen everybody miss short.
Phil
Luke
Rory
Tiger

sydneybound · 15-06-2013 7:48pm

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Lads , I know his putting is ropey but do we over-react for him.

Ive seen everybody miss short.
Phil
Luke
Rory
Tiger

I dont think posting about him missing a short putt and making a longer one is over reacting, its just someone posting about his round. With this season in mind Harringtons putting is all over the place, one day great/ the next terrible and he misses way more short putts than the players named above so you cant really compare them.

FixdePitchmark · 15-06-2013 8:16pm

sydneybound wrote: »

I dont think posting about him missing a short putt and making a longer one is over reacting, its just someone posting about his round. With this season in mind Harringtons putting is all over the place, one day great/ the next terrible and he misses way more short putts than the players named above so you cant really compare them.

honestly, don't think I've seen Phil or Luke miss as many putts as they have at this.

Uncle Ben · 15-06-2013 8:39pm

sydneybound wrote: »

I dont think posting about him missing a short putt and making a longer one is over reacting, its just someone posting about his round. With this season in mind Harringtons putting is all over the place, one day great/ the next terrible and he misses way more short putts than the players named above so you cant really compare them.

This year PH is number 10 in relation to putts per round. Last year he was 100. A big improvement all round.

http://www.cbssports.com/golf/stats/stats_leaders/EURO/2013/puttperRound

FixdePitchmark · 15-06-2013 8:45pm

Uncle Ben wrote: »

This year PH is number 10 in relation to putts per round. Last year he was 100. A big improvement all round.

http://www.cbssports.com/golf/stats/stats_leaders/EURO/2013/puttperRound

well there you go.

see the one phil missed

Uncle Ben · 15-06-2013 8:55pm

Padraig is his own worst enemy, and in my opinion, I believe he needs another, stronger more forceful caddy.

FixdePitchmark · 15-06-2013 8:58pm

Uncle Ben wrote: »

Padraig is his own worst enemy, and in my opinion, I believe he needs another, stronger more forceful caddy.

yes maybe just for a new voice, but he is his own man in a way.

amazing to hear how good some of the other caddies are, how strong at the right times, Williams , Bones.

castle · 15-06-2013 8:58pm

where is us open online for free

mrkiscool2 · 15-06-2013 9:11pm

Horrible bogey at 9, 3 putted from less than 10 yards.... Awful

FixdePitchmark · 15-06-2013 9:35pm

sadly, could be gone for paddy, unless under home.

PhlegmyMoses · 15-06-2013 10:10pm

Yeah, he'd probably have to card under par today and tomorrow to be anywhere near, and that's just not likely on this course. The field won't come back as far as him.

FixdePitchmark · 15-06-2013 10:15pm

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

Yeah, he'd probably have to card under par today and tomorrow to be anywhere near, and that's just not likely on this course. The field won't come back as far as him.

yes, funny thing is they are all coming back in what looks like ok conditions.
wind maybe ?

but one or two will go under on back nine and will be lead at level to 2 under.

PARlance · 15-06-2013 10:16pm

And that's that unfortunately

pelevin · 15-06-2013 10:20pm

Uncle Ben wrote: »

Padraig is his own worst enemy, and in my opinion, I believe he needs another, stronger more forceful caddy.

I think Billy Foster could've been a very interesting match-up for Padraig. Unfortunately when u mix family & work a caddie change decision like that becomes much bigger than would otherwise be - bad blood and all that.

abff · 15-06-2013 10:24pm

And disaster strikes at the 14th. Out of bounds, next drive in the rough, chip out, long putt coming up for double bogey. End of this year's challenge, unfortunately.

PRAF · 16-06-2013 10:35pm

+11 is a respectable score given how hard Merrion has been playing. Should be good enough for a Top 25 finish. Nothing spectacular but continues his recent steady play.

abff · 16-06-2013 11:01pm

PRAF wrote: »

Should be good enough for a Top 25 finish.

Currently T23 with nobody behind him out on the course, so that's the worst he can finish.

I'd love to see his putting stats for the week. From what I saw on Sky, he sank a lot of putts around the 8 to 10 feet mark and missed a lot of 4 to 5 footers.

sydneybound · 16-06-2013 11:24pm

I suppose I should be happy with how he got on, top 25 finish, but I just get that feeling of what might have been without that triple yesterday. Anyway does anyone know when he's back out on tour?

abff · 16-06-2013 11:36pm

Irish Open is on the week after next. I expect he'll take next week off as he doesn't like playing 4 weeks in a row.

AloKildare · 17-06-2013 2:11am

Decent T21 finish.
Short putts the problem at the moment but his overall game seems to be on the up.

He is playing in the Travelers Championship this week.
Another steady performance would be nice with the Irish Open coming up next.

Ruu · 17-06-2013 12:58pm

65 in the world rankings.

PRAF · 17-06-2013 3:34pm

AloKildare wrote: »

Decent T21 finish.
Short putts the problem at the moment but his overall game seems to be on the up.

He is playing in the Travelers Championship this week.
Another steady performance would be nice with the Irish Open coming up next.

Wow, just checked pgatour.com following your post and noted that he is currently 152nd on tour for putts in the 3-5 ft range. He makes 82% of them. Luke Donald is 3rd with almost 94%. If Harro had the same stats as Luke in this category, he'd have saved himself 10 shots over the course of the season. That's about a shot a tournament on average.

Some other pretty poor stats (around 170th on tour or worse) are:
- Scrambling from >30 yards
- Approaches to the green from > 200 yards

It's pretty clear where the improvement areas are. He needs to continue his recent improvements in his short game. In particular, he needs to work on his pitching and his short putts. He also needs serious work on his long irons / fairway woods.

Even if he gets towards the pgatour average in those areas, you are talking $000s of extra cash and probably a win or two.

coddlesangers · 18-06-2013 5:09pm

I can't believe how his pitching has deteriorated. It used to be 100% of his game. Its quite depressing in golf how you need to keep working, all the time, on everything. Why do people play this stupid game