{"id":544,"date":"2005-03-13T18:30:30","date_gmt":"2005-03-13T23:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/uncategorized\/luck_of_the_irish_padraig_drives_away_with_the_honda\/"},"modified":"2005-03-13T18:30:30","modified_gmt":"2005-03-13T23:30:30","slug":"luck_of_the_irish_padraig_drives_away_with_the_honda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/pga\/luck_of_the_irish_padraig_drives_away_with_the_honda","title":{"rendered":"Luck of the Irish: Padraig Drives Away with the Honda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/b\/imgs\/pga\/padraig_harrington_wide.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"340\" alt=\"Padraig Harrington\" class=\"bordered\" \/>Vijay Singh lipped out no more than a three foot putt on the second playoff hole and the Irishman Padraig Harrington has captures his first victory on the PGA Tour four days shy of St. Patrick&#8217;s Day. Harrington, who started the day 8 back of the leaders and finished more than 90 minutes before <a href=\"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/pga\/ogilvy_and_wetterich_share_honda_lead\/\" title=\"Wetterich and Oglvie Share Lead in Honda\">the third-round leaders<\/a>, fired a course-record 63 to Singh&#8217;s 64 to get into the playoff. Joe Ogilvie &#8211; not third-round leader Geoff Ogilvy &#8211; fired a 68 to get into the playoff, but was eliminated on the first hole with a bogey.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nPadraig Harrington had a 59 in his sights. With birdies at 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9 he went out in 30 before birdieing the first four holes on the back &#8211; a string of six consecutive birdies. -10 through 13, Harrington bogeyed 14 and 15 before birdieing the par-5 17th to get back to -14. Singh played equally as well, with birdies on 1, 2, 5, 8, 10, 12, and 17. He bogeyed the third but offset that with an eagle at the par-5 sixth. <\/p>\n<p>The leaders, who began the day at -12, fell back with a pair of 73s. Brett Wetterich, the leader as late as his 12th hole, <em>triple-bogeyed<\/em> the par-4 13th. His drive found the left rough, he put his ball well over the green and into a hazard, pitched short only to have the ball roll back down a slope, pitched on again, and two-putted for the seven. He bogeyed 15 and couldn&#8217;t manage a birdie at the par-5 17th to finish at -11 with playing partner Geoff Ogilvy, who bogeyed 11 and 12 before double-bogeying the finishing hole after driving into a divot. A birdie would have secured a spot in the playoff.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Ogilvie had a 20-foot putt on the 18th to win, but came up inches short and left to get into the playoff with a par. His bogey-free 68 featured birdies at 6, 7, 12, and 17.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Ogilvie, Padraig Harrington, and Vijay Singh played the difficult 476-yard par-4 18th, which played to a stroke average of 4.38 in the final round. Ogilvie promptly pulled his drive into the front lip of a fairway bunker. Harrington drove the ball well right into the rough. Singh found the fairway, a yard from the divot he&#8217;d made only 30 minutes prior. Ogilvie pitched out, yanked his approach left, and failed to hole the pitch. Harrington played left and made a fantastic pitch over the bunker that hit, bounced a few inches, and stopped. He made the three-footer &#8211; from just left of where Singh would eventually miss. Singh put his approach over the pin to about 20 feet, and missed the birdie putt just right.<\/p>\n<p>Harrington and Singh again played 18, and Singh put his tee shot within a square yard of his previous two attempts. Harrington, from a few feet away, again pulled his shot left, but long, onto a downslope 25 yards from the pin. Singh didn&#8217;t fare much better with his approach, pulling it left. He had the easier shot, with an upslope. Padraig pitched to six feet, and Vijay to three. Harrington made his right-edge putt, and Singh played it a bit too firm. The putt lipped out, and Harrington captured the title.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s believed that this is the first victory by a Republic of Ireland citizen on the PGA Tour. Darren Clarke has won, but Clarke hails from Northern Ireland. Harrington will be able to celebrate St. Patrick&#8217;s Day in style, cashing in a $990,000 first-place check and his first victory on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<pre>Pos  Player              Today   Tot    R1    R2    R3    R4    Tot\n1*    Padraig Harrington  -9     -14    73    69    69    63    274\nT2   Vijay Singh          -8     -14    71    69    70    64    274\nT2   Joe Ogilvie          -4     -14    73    66    67    68    274\n4    Pat Perez            -2     -13    69    69    67    70    275\n5    David Toms           -5     -12    71    71    67    67    276\nT6   Brad Faxon           -7     -11    69    71    72    65    277\nT6   Geoff Ogilvy         +1     -11    73    67    64    73    277\nT6   Brett Wetterich      +1     -11    66    66    72    73    277\nT9   Lucas Glover         -9     -10    70    71    74    63    278\nT9   Jim Furyk            -4     -10    71    69    70    68    278\nT11  Billy Andrade        -6      -9    69    69    75    66    279\nT11  Aaron Baddeley       -5      -9    68    72    72    67    279\nT11  Greg Owen            -4      -9    72    70    69    68    279\n* Won in a two-hole playoff.<\/pre>\n<p>Next week, the PGA Tour ventures to Arnold Palmer&#8217;s Bay Hill Invitational, an event Tiger Woods has won four of the past five years. His string was broken by Chad Campbell last year.<\/p>\n<p>Tap-In: It&#8217;s worth noting that Padraig Harrington, a Wilson Staff player, has been playing the Titleist Pro V1x for the past year unpaid. Just this week he signed a deal with Titleist.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/\" title=\"WireImage\" class=\"external external_icon\">Al Messerschmidt<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The luck of the Irish prevail as Padraig Harrington wins his first PGA Tour event in a playoff over Vijay Singh and Joe Ogilvie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Luck of the Irish: Padraig Drives Away with the Honda (PGA) - The Sand Trap .com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/pga\/luck_of_the_irish_padraig_drives_away_with_the_honda\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Luck of the Irish: Padraig Drives Away with the Honda (PGA) - The Sand Trap .com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The luck of the Irish prevail as Padraig Harrington wins his first PGA Tour event in a playoff over Vijay Singh and Joe Ogilvie.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/imgs\/pga\/padraig_harrington_wide.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@the_sand_trap\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@the_sand_trap\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Erik J. 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