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Padraig Harrington (born 31st August 1971 in
Ballyroan(Dublin)|Ballyroan, Dublin, Republic of
Ireland|Ireland) is a professional golfer.

==Career outline==

After a successful amateur career, including
winning the Walker Cup with the Great Britain
& Ireland team in 1995, Harrington turned
professional later that year, joining the PGA
European Tour|European Tour in 1996.

His first victory came quickly, in the 1996
Spanish Open, but for the next few years the most
remarkable thing about his career was the number
of times he finished second in European Tour
events without ever bettering that position,
including four second places in five events in
late 1999. However in 2000 he discovered a winning
touch, and he had at least one win on the European
Tour each year from then up to 2004. He has
finished in the top ten on the European Tour's
order of merit seven times, including third places
in 2001 and 2002 and second places in 2003 and
2004
(http://www.europeantour.com/players/bio.sps?iPlay
erNo=293&sOption=history list).

From around 2000 Harrington appeared with
increasing frequency in the U.S. at the majors and
World Golf Championships events, and as a
sponsor's invitee. He won his first professional
event in the U.S. at the Target World Challenge, a
non-PGA Tour event hosted by Tiger Woods in 2002.
In both 2003 and 2004 he was the runner up in the
prestigious Players Championship, and in the
latter year he won enough money on the PGA Tour as
a non-member to earn an invitation to the end of
season Tour Championship. He took membership of
the PGA Tour for 2005 and in March he won his
first PGA Tour official money event at the Honda
Classic, where he beat Vijay Singh and Joe Ogilvie
in a sudden death playoff. 

Harrington has spent a considerable amount of time
in the top ten of the Official World Golf
Rankings, his best ranking to early June 2005
being sixth. He has also played for Europe in
three Ryder Cup|Ryder Cups; losing in 1999 but
winning in 2002 and 2004.

==European Tour wins==
*1996 - Peugeot Spanish Open
*2000 - Brazil Sao Paulo 500 Years Open, BBVA Open
Turespaña Masters Comunidad de Madrid
*2001 - Volvo Masters Andalucia
*2002 - Dunhill Links Championship
*2003 - Deutsche Bank - SAP Open TPC of Europe,
BMW Asian Open
*2004 - Linde German Masters, Omega Hong Kong Open

==Other wins==
Professional
*1998 Irish PGA Championship (not a European Tour
event)
*2002 Target World Challenge (U.S. - unofficial
event)
*2004 Irish PGA Championship (not a European Tour
event)
*2005 Honda Classic (PGA Tour), Barclays Classic
(PGA Tour)

Amateur
*1991 Sherry Cup
*1994 West of Ireland Amateur
*1995 Irish Amateur Open Championship, Irish
Amateur Closed Championship

===Results in major championships===
{| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1"
style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px;
border-collapse: collapse;"
|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"
! Tournament !! 1996 !! 1997 !! 1998 !! 1999 !!
2000 !! 2001 !! 2002 !! 2003 !! 2004 !! 2005
|-
|The Masters Tournament|The Masters
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|T19
|align="center"|T27
|align="center"|T5
|align="center"|CUT
|align="center"|T13
|align="center"|CUT

|-
|U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|CUT
|align="center"|T32
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|T5
|align="center"|T30
|align="center"|T8
|align="center"|T10
|align="center"|T31
|align="center"|CUT

|-
|The Open Championship|British Open
|align="center"|T18
|align="center"|T5
|align="center"|CUT
|align="center"|29
|align="center"|T20
|align="center"|T37
|align="center"|T5
|align="center"|T22
|align="center"|CUT
|align="center"|DNP

|-
|PGA Championship
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|CUT
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|T58
|align="center"|CUT
|align="center"|T17
|align="center"|T29
|align="center"|T45
|align="center"|CUT
|}

DNP = did not play

CUT = missed the half way cut

"T" indicates a tie for a place.

==External links==

*http://www.padraigharrington.com/ Official site
*http://www.europeantour.com/players/bio.sps?iPlay
erNo=293 Profile on the European Tour's official
site
*http://www.pgatour.com/players/bio/399340 Profile
on the PGA Tour's official site
*http://www.golfstarsonline.com/H/Padraig_Harringt
on/ Padraig Harrington at Golf Stars Online
Directory of interviews, websites and feature
articles with or about Padraig Harrington.