Pádraig Harrington has criticised golf's administrators for not doing enough to honour Seve Ballesteros. The Irishman feels Ballesteros, who is recovering from a brain tumour, should be made an ambassador of the European Tour.

Ballesteros has started a course of chemotherapy after being released on December 9th from a Madrid hospital.

"It is a shame that in recent years Seve has not been leading out the European Tour as an ambassador," Harrington said. "He has that charisma and just needs to enter a room for everyone to know he is there.

"It's only when something like this happens that you see how much he is missed, so I hope the Tour can build more of a relationship with him and have him at the forefront of our Tour," he added in the Sunday Express.