{"id":226837,"date":"2025-06-30T14:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226837\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T14:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:36:14","slug":"padraig-harrington-bounces-back-from-lost-ball-row-to-claim-second-us-senior-open-title-by-one-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226837\/","title":{"rendered":"Padraig Harrington bounces back from lost ball row to claim second US Senior Open title by one shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Padraig Harrington shot a three under par 67 to beat Stewart Cink by one stroke<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Harrington finished 11 under for the tournament to repeat his 2022 success<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>He was involved in a confrontation with\u00a0Roger Maltbie earlier in the week<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-198\/riath-al-samarrai.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RIATH AL-SAMARRAI<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  03:55 EDT, 30 June 2025   |  Updated:  04:28 EDT, 30 June 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A week that started with a surreal row over a lost ball ended with Padraig Harrington becoming a multiple major champion on golf\u2019s over-50s circuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">By winning the US Senior Open for a second time on Sunday evening, the 53-year-old is now two-thirds of the way to replicating the haul he achieved in his prime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">As with his 2007 victory at <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/the_open\/index.html\" id=\"mol-25734240-5584-11f0-a762-b5161b3f253b\" rel=\"noopener\">The Open<\/a>, this triumph came at the expense of Stewart Cink, whom he beat by a stroke at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Cink had led by one leaving the 10th green, but his bogey at the next dovetailed with Harrington\u2019s birdie for a two-shot swing and the Irishman was flawless over the final seven holes on his way to a 67.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">At 11 under par for the tournament, he won back the title he lifted in 2022 and an $800,000 payday, with former <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/ryder_cup\/index.html\" id=\"mol-2572f420-5584-11f0-a762-b5161b3f253b\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryder Cup<\/a> team-mate Miguel Angel Jimenez in third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It was a perfect end to a week that began in a fraught manner, when Harrington lost a ball off the tee in the first round and was subsequently filmed in a tense conversation with NBC\u2019s Roger Maltbie. Harrington was unimpressed that the former pro had not helped him search in the trees.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-8f0b76753b266814\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99849179-14859891-image-a-1_1751269470808.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Padraig Harrington triumphed in the US Senior Open for a second time on Sunday evening\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Padraig Harrington triumphed in the US Senior Open for a second time on Sunday evening<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-f8c00e18a06d94e8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99849235-14859891-image-a-2_1751269528204.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"At 11 under par for the tournament, the 53-year-old won back the title he lifted in 2022\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">At 11 under par for the tournament, the 53-year-old won back the title he lifted in 2022<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-61ea668019693ba8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99824617-14859891-Padraig_Harrington_was_involved_in_a_bust_up_with_former_pro_tur-a-16_175127013372.jpeg\" height=\"691\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Harrington was involved in a bust-up with former pro-turned reporter Roger Maltbie\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Harrington was involved in a bust-up with former pro-turned reporter Roger Maltbie<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Harrington was heard accusing Maltbie of a breach of etiquette, saying: \u2018You\u2019ve played golf all your life. You understand. You don\u2019t stand looking at somebody looking for a golf ball.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">On Sunday, Maltbie clarified his position to Golf.com: \u2018I\u2019ve never had a cross word with Padraig. I\u2019ve been a Padraig fan all these years. Anyway, I tried to explain to him, \u201cPadraig, my producer had told me to stand by\u201d. They were going to come to me for a report. I could not do it, searching for your ball inside those trees. So I did not go in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Every time I tried to explain to him, he said, \u201cIt\u2019s poor etiquette. It\u2019s golf etiquette to help somebody in search for a ball\u201d, and that I should know better after the years of playing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018I tried to say, \u201cListen, I have a boss\u201d. I\u2019m not a player, and if I were a spectator or certainly playing with him, I would have helped him search for his ball. But I was under instructions. It just wouldn\u2019t work. But he wanted no part of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018I was very close to saying, \u201cAll these years, all these checks I\u2019ve gotten from NBC, your name isn\u2019t on any of them\u201d. I mean, his caddie works for him, so I\u2019m sure his caddie does what Padraig tells him to do. Well, I have an employer, and if they tell me basically what I\u2019m going to do or what they want from me, I have to honour that. But he just doesn\u2019t see it that way.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Padraig Harrington bounces back from lost ball row to claim second US Senior Open title by one shot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Padraig Harrington shot a three under par 67 to beat Stewart Cink by one stroke Harrington finished 11&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[92,2826,93,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-226837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-sport","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114772822703773464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226837","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=226837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}