Monday, July 21, 2008
Padraig Holds Onto The Claret Jug

Irishmen winning Open Championships eh? They’re like buses.

We wait 68 years for a player from the Emerald Isle to get their hands on the Claret Jug then he goes and does it two years on the spin. The first European in 102 years for crying out loud.

Hats off to Ian Poulter for a stellar final round of 69 to give himself a chance. His putt on the 72nd that looked good enough to win the Open and was a sign of what the boy from Stevenage can do. We hope his steel in the heat of battle will bode well for future Majors.

But in the end it looks like the par five 71st was the difference. Where Poults three putted for par Paddy stiffed it to three foot for eagle. If Ian could have bagged a birdie on his visit who knows what that would have done to the Harrington’s nerves but it wasn’t meant to be and it’s all speculation anyway.

What we do know is the Pod is now a multiple major winner, which separates him from many players past and present. With all the speculation coming into the tournament about the double Open winners injury you can’t rate his performance high enough. Watching Padraig and baby Paddy grinning as they walked away from the 18th green you could see that was no limp wristed performance.

Click below to see how he did it.



7/21/2008 11:13:49 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [1] 

7/23/2008 11:12:12 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
The way Ian Poulter went about finishing his last round it almost looked as if he was destined to win the Open. The poor chap was seen practicing at the end of his round for he like everyone else thought that there was a definite chance of the leaders coming down to his score but what a finish by Harrington. The video you have here of the second shot to the 17th was something out of this world. It was indicative of his back 9, which he wrapped up in four under par while everyone around him was falling back.

My biggest disappointment was the way K.J. Choi finished The Open. Surely that chap has got what it takes to win a major championship but I guess nervers took the better of him and he was out of reckoning within the first few holes. But it must have been great learning curve for him and one thing is for certain he will be back and would probably love to take the title of the First Asian to win a major.
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