Round 1: Travelers Championship
June 24 2010
2:29 pm
Harrington takes advantage of conditions
Harrington on his 64
Sirius XM's Bill Rosinski talks to Padraig Harrington after his round.
Padraig Harrington is one of 32 players in the field who also played in last week’s U.S. Open (Kevin Na and Matt Kuchar withdrew), but there doesn’t appear to be any sort of Pebble Beach hangover for him.
“It’s a different change of pace, but now that I’m leading the tournament, obviously I’m back to the old grind again,” said Harrington, who shot a 64 to grab a three-way share of the lead with Charlie Wi and Mathew Goggin before the horn blew to temporarily halt play at 2 p.m. ET. “Obviously the greens are purer out there, they’re receptive and you really do feel like you can make some birdies.”
Harrington did just that, making seven of them to just one bogey.
Not that it wasn’t difficult for Harrington to bounce back from a long week at the U.S. Open.
“You realize after a U.S. Open on the Sunday night, Monday, how tired you are, how much effort you put in over there the previous seven days,” said Harrington, whose only tournament between now and the British Open will be this one. “That’s another thing with a U.S. Open, it’s at least seven days. You’re grinding from the Monday onwards.
“It’s important probably that I have started well in this tournament because if I didn’t start very well, it wouldn’t be very easy to have to — you need a little bit of adrenaline after a hard week like last week.” — Brian Wacker
PGATOUR.com is part of Turner - SI Digital, part of the Turner Sports & Entertainment Digital Network 
Seven in a row is smoking any place , yet like he said it was not on a open course nor he taken the out right lead with the one over par , be good for him going into the british if he could win this ,,
It’s been too long since Padraig won a tournament. I’d like to see him get his mojo going before St. Andrews.