Golf:Padraig Harrington is "absolutely gutted" that he is not fit enough to play in this week's BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. A knee injury will keep the 39-year-old Dubliner out.
He said tonight: “It was feeling really good at the weekend and I was thinking I might have pulled out a bit early. But it’s gone from acute pain to persistent niggling pain and it seems the physios know a thing or two.”
Harrington was at nearby Sunningdale in his role as a Royal and Ancient Club ambassador for a clinic with schoolchildren brought together by the Golf Foundation charity.
He was also attending the European Tour’s awards dinner, but next up for him is the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix.
“I’ve never been to a grand prix, but I can’t sit at home watching another tournament and I’m basically going to have a week’s holiday to get me away from the temptation of practising.”
He expects to start that again in the middle of next week on a trip to Sandwich, venue for this July’s British Open, while his next tournament is in Memphis on June 9th-12th, a week before the US Open.
