• Harrington, Garcia make peace at McIlroy’s wedding

    Garcia a sore loser?
    Garcia's pain was Harrington's joy in 2007

    Padraig Harrington has revealed that he and Sergio Garcia have buried the hatchet after the Irishman’s comments in the wake of Garcia’s major breakthrough at Augusta.

    The pair had a strained relationship after Garcia lost out to the Dubliner in a playoff at the 2007 Open Championship, but that all changed after meeting at Rory McIlroy’s wedding at Co Mayo this weekend.

    ‘Sergio and I are on a much better footing,’ Harrington said in quotes reported by the BBC.

    ‘We’ve had a chat, because obviously there was a bit of an elephant in the room about what I said.

    ‘I’ve got to say, Sergio made it very easy. He was exceptionally good about it. He already was well-informed, which was nice.

    ‘We have decided that we will look, going forward, at our similarities and the good in each of us rather than any other way.’

    What Harrington said:

    ‘I gave him every out I possibly could at the 2007 Open,’ Harrington told Irish radio RTE 2fm.

    ‘I was as polite as I could, and as generous as I could be. But he was a very sore loser, and he continued to be a very sore loser. So clearly after that, we had a very sticky wicket I’d say.’

    Despite a decade passing and a number of Ryder Cup appearances together, the pair have endured a frosty relationship until now …

    ‘We say hello to each other every day we meet, but it’s with gritted teeth, there’s no doubt about it.’

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