Someone Get Padraig A European Tour Pocket Schedule, Please

Even though he's only played twice in European Tour sanctioned non-majors this year, and even though he won three majors before deciding his swing needed changing for the worse, Padraig Harrington was selected for the Ryder Cup team over Justin Rose and Paul Casey in part for his devotion to European golf. You can sense it in this quote, after a missed cut at the Deutsche Bank.

"I'll definitely play before now and the Ryder Cup," he said. "What are the three (European tournaments)? I don't even know, I'll have to have a look.

"As much as I'd like a break, and a break wouldn't do me any harm, I still want to be competitive going into the Ryder Cup.

"You can't get the sort of competition you want unless you're on a golf course in tournament play."

Comments

[Styles]

How tired is the Padraig bashing getting?

*yawn, bored with this now Geoff, any chance of moving on?

[M]

Wow, Geoff has the power to make WGC events majors now? So has Tiger has passed Jack then!

[Scott]

I like Paddy, particularly since I get the impression from him that, deep down, he doesn't give a flying fig about the Ryder Cup.

[Geoff]

Styles,
No chance.

M,
I'll note WGC's when they actually play one in Europe again.

[d.b.cooper]

Agree with Scott.

Paddy is alright.

[Emeril]

Paddy's best days have passed, so stick a fork in him.

[Tom]

I made this comment in an earlier thread but after it had cooled off. So again--

The difference between Harrington's (+ Donald's) and Casey's ET appearances in 2010 is entirely because Casey played the 3-event Emirates swing at the beginning of the ET season and the others did not. (Okay, they were at Riviera. Can Geoff blame them for that?)

In 2009 Harringtom actually played more 'pure' ET events than either of the other two (7 vs 5) although that is not entirely fair to Casey as he sat out several weeks after Firestone with an injury.

And FWIW, the ET's schedule has changed compared to previous years (the Irish Open was pushed back almost 3 months and the upcoming KLM by 3 weeks) so I am not particularly surprised that Paddy has lost track of the upcoming events.

[Hawkeye]

Ray Floyd once played the Memphis stop with Colonial's yardage book in his pocket. Not easy to keep track of where you are when you're a globetrotting professional!

[Styles]

Looking forward to the (UK) media reaction when Tiger gets his Captain's pick. Looking forward even more to watching him trying to play with the stories the UK media will release whilst he is over.