Sir Alex Ferguson ‘would probably end up in jail’ if managing today as Man Utd legend brands ex-boss ‘evil’<\/a><\/p>\nAfter a multitude of near misses, McIlroy finally took him the trophy. However, Harrington was unsure whether the victory might push McIlroy to extend his legacy, or be \u2018the end of him\u2019.<\/p>\n
“We just don’t know. It could free him up, but a lot of people when they achieve what they want to achieve, that’s the end of them.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know where Rory’s goals are. If his goal was to make the grand slam and he doesn’t have anything after that, it won’t taper off this year, but it’ll taper off in a couple of years.<\/p>\n
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Padraig Harrington described Scottie Scheffler as ‘grumpy and angry’ during the Masters week<\/p>\n
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“I asked him, way back in the day, and nine majors is his figure. That’s a good sign because if he was only thinking grand slam or four majors, it would be the end of him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been the end of everybody who has done that, so we can expect him to be motivated for a few more.”<\/p>\n
Despite competing against McIlroy, who the competition\u2019s favourite to win, Scheffler with the ‘bit between his teeth\u2019 and world No.3 Xander Schauffele, Harrington was confident in his own abilities.<\/p>\n
“I always believe I can win. Why not?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n
LATEST SPORTS NEWS:<\/strong><\/p>\n“To do that, I have to get my head in the right place. Physically, I’m good enough.<\/p>\n
“I’m motivated to do that, not just because of this week, but because I have two months of big tournaments ahead of me.<\/p>\n
“Playing well this week would be very satisfying, going into the run that I’m going into.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Padraig Harrington believes that Scottie Scheffler looked \u2018grumpy and angry\u2019 ahead of the PGA Championship clash with Rory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,12,93,79,16,15,978,727],"class_list":{"0":"post-102044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-sport","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114508809407379009","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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