Harrington could ‘do more’ says Alliss

by Thomas Rooney on Nov 2, 2008 3:48 PM EST

Veteran golf pundit Peter Alliss believes that after a fantastic 2008, Irish golfer Padraig Harrington can achieve even more in the coming years. Harrington has won two majors in this calendar year and has enjoyed some of the best months of his career as a professional golfer.

Just to recap, it is worth noting the remarkable achievements of Harrington during 2008. He has cemented himself as one of the world’s finest golfers by not only retaining his British Open title, but by going on to win the US PGA Championship as well. These back-to-back wins were against many golf odds and surely mean things can’t get any better for the Irishman?

Well, Alliss is of the opinion that they can. Even though Tiger Woods will be returning to the course next year, he firmly believes that Harrington will continue to challenge for several major honours. Alliss says that due to the player’s ‘hard work, dedication and skill’ he has achieved ‘wonderous things' in the last year and that because of these attributes he can undoubtedly go on and ‘do more’.

Something Alliss touched upon and I would like to emphasise is the change of attitude as far as Harrington is concerned. For the first time in his career, he believes in his own ability and is going out onto the course knowing that he is the man to beat. In the past this was something he wouldn’t have enjoyed, but now – I think he is loving every second.

As much as 2008 will be a year that Harrington will remember for a long time, he needs to use it as a platform for greater things rather than settling for it as the highlight of his career. At 37 years of age, he still has many years of professional golf ahead of him and there is no doubt he can win plenty more trophies.

Perhaps in years to come he will look back on 2008 as they year where he really started playing like the respected, world-class golfer we all know he can be.

By Thomas Rooney – A sports writer who blogs about golf betting

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"against the odds"

Oddsmakers and pundits always look better in the rear view mirror. These guys make a ton of picks and if a handful of them come out the way they “predicted”, they are geniuses.

The problem I see with these “predictions” is that they didn’t see Tiger Woods being out of the picture for 9 months. His absense has made a lot of players’ records better than they might have been had he been playing – and while we can’t say that Harrington WOULDN’T or COULDN’T have won the British and PGA this year, we do know that he wouldn’t have been as much on the radar screen. It’s a pretty good bet, however, that Tiger wouldn’t have made the same mistakes down the stretch as Sergio.

Face it – Tiger makes a mess out of all these “predictions” – whether he’s in the field or not. It just gives these guys more sssss….stuff to write about. :-)

I’ll be pulling for Paddy when Tiger gets back. His wins this year were great for his career – but you have to wonder about his disappearing act after the PGA. He didn’t play well at all once the majors were done.

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Nov 2, 2008 5:17 PM EST reply actions