Padraig Harrington, who sensationally and dramatically beat Tiger Woods on Sunday, has changed his mind about missing the Accenture World Match Play Championship in February. A month ago Ireland's world number eight was talking about withdrawing from the £3.5million event in California after suffering three successive first-round defeats.
But while Harrington is still intending to miss the Volvo PGA championship at Wentworth in May because of his lack of success there, the match play is back on his schedule. Harrington, currently in Mexico with partner Paul McGinley for the World Cup starting tomorrow, stated yesterday that the big problem about the Match Play is that it is early in the year.
After this week Harrington is taking nine weeks off, and is expected to return for the Malaysian Open on February 20-23 - the week before the Match Play, where $1million is on offer to the winner at La Costa.
Filed by Shane Murray
