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Padraig Harrington.....2015 Honda Classic Champion
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Did PH not have a sore neck in the days leading up to his last win in The Open???????
Not such a daft post. He was struggling with a wrist injury and couldn't practice in run up to Birkdale.
He also had a sore neck last year around the time of the Johor Open so could be it's a recurring problem.0 -
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From PGA website
A real pain in the neck
By Melanie Hauser, PGATOUR.COM Correspondent
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Padraig Harrington never got warmed up Thursday morning.
In fact, he almost didn’t make it to the first tee.
Harrington was swinging left-handed to loosen up when he felt the pain. He left range to get his neck worked on, made it to the tee and shot 77.
Harrington
"It just kind of clicked and I’m not able to move to my right,” he said. "… I went back in, I didn’t get a warm‑up really at all. I spent about two minutes on the putting green and I really couldn’t do my warm‑up at all because I had to get back out and get treatment and all that.”
He didn’t take any painkillers.
"I was hoping it would go away, it actually got worse on the course,” said the three-time major champ. "Maybe I should have taken the pain killers. There you go. It didn’t cross my mind.
"But I couldn’t keep my head in position at impact. I had to come up on all my shots. And when you’re doing that you can hit it right and left.”
Harrington did birdie the fifth to get to 1 under but bogeyed the sixth and double-bogeyed the seven to jump to 2 over at the turn. He bogeyed his way around Amen Corner, birdied Nos. 15 and 16, then doubled the 18th.
He knows it will take a miracle to make the cut.
"Absolutely,” he said. "You know, it’s tough when you can’t hit the shots, yeah. It would be just hard enough to make up the numbers, but as it is, you know, we’ll see how it goes.”
This isn’t the first time he’s been troubled with neck pain. It started at the 2002 PGA at Hazeltine.
"It’s very much under control now,” he said. " I do a lot of work on it. And it doesn’t give me too much trouble during the year. But it’s always going to happen. You know, sometimes. And I would love to tell you that there’s more I could do, let’s say, aside from cutting my head off.”
But there isn’t. And, no, withdrawing wasn’t an option.
"I wouldn’t,” he said. "That’s just my nature. I would always have a go. But it wasn’t much fun.”
The toughest thing? He felt like he could contend this year.
"It’s very disappointing,” he said. "I prepared very well, I was in good form, but it was not to be. Such is life."0 -
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From PGA website
A real pain in the neck
By Melanie Hauser, PGATOUR.COM Correspondent
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Padraig Harrington never got warmed up Thursday morning.
In fact, he almost didn’t make it to the first tee.
Harrington was swinging left-handed to loosen up when he felt the pain. He left range to get his neck worked on, made it to the tee and shot 77. Harrington
"It just kind of clicked and I’m not able to move to my right,” he said. "… I went back in, I didn’t get a warm‑up really at all. I spent about two minutes on the putting green and I really couldn’t do my warm‑up at all because I had to get back out and get treatment and all that.”
He didn’t take any painkillers.
"I was hoping it would go away, it actually got worse on the course,” said the three-time major champ. "Maybe I should have taken the pain killers. There you go. It didn’t cross my mind.
"But I couldn’t keep my head in position at impact. I had to come up on all my shots. And when you’re doing that you can hit it right and left.”
Harrington did birdie the fifth to get to 1 under but bogeyed the sixth and double-bogeyed the seven to jump to 2 over at the turn. He bogeyed his way around Amen Corner, birdied Nos. 15 and 16, then doubled the 18th.
He knows it will take a miracle to make the cut.
"Absolutely,” he said. "You know, it’s tough when you can’t hit the shots, yeah. It would be just hard enough to make up the numbers, but as it is, you know, we’ll see how it goes.”
This isn’t the first time he’s been troubled with neck pain. It started at the 2002 PGA at Hazeltine.
"It’s very much under control now,” he said. " I do a lot of work on it. And it doesn’t give me too much trouble during the year. But it’s always going to happen. You know, sometimes. And I would love to tell you that there’s more I could do, let’s say, aside from cutting my head off.”
But there isn’t. And, no, withdrawing wasn’t an option.
"I wouldn’t,” he said. "That’s just my nature. I would always have a go. But it wasn’t much fun.”
The toughest thing? He felt like he could contend this year.
"It’s very disappointing,” he said. "I prepared very well, I was in good form, but it was not to be. Such is life."
Seems genuinely p*ssed off, "aside from cutting my neck off" is pretty vivid language!!
I think the whole of Ireland is annoyed TBH, who knows if he shoots 68/69 today, he has a chance of making the cut and you just ever know how hard they will make the course......0 -
blackwaterfish wrote: »he's had a neck issue going back years.
remember ryder cup '08?
Thats the last punter who backed him.......
he has had a neck problem for a couple of years now and its flared up again. But lets not that stop him being written off all together:rolleyes:0 -
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