Gotcha! Paddy Harrington Punks Stewart Cink

There were a little bit of hijinx down at East Lake yesterday on the eve of the Tour Championship.  Two-time Open Champion Paddy Harrington engaged in some shenanigans with current Open Champion, nice guy, and Tom Watson-party pooper Stewart Cink.

From Jay Busbee at Yahoo!:

On Tuesday morning, Cink arrived at East Lake and left the case containing the jug in the players’ locker room while he went to do interviews. Anyone who didn’t recognize the case wouldn’t have had any idea what was within.

"I met with PGA TOUR productions to do another interview before I came down [to the media tent], and I looked in my locker and saw that the jug was gone," Cink said. "So I assumed they had gotten it and put it on their set. I said, ‘So you guys already have the claret jug.’ And they said, ‘No.’"

Sadly for the dramatic impact of the story, a locker room attendant almost immediately told Cink what had happened: none other than Padraig Harrington had swiped it and put it back in his own locker.

"Harrington, I guess, he only had it for two years, so he wanted to have it just a little bit longer," Cink smiled. "So he decided to take it from me."

Harrington must have grown acccustomed to the face of the Claret Jug.