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Harrington finishes 2 back in Boston

February 17, 2011

By Staff Reporter

The tournament turned for Harrington on the back nine Monday afternoon. He’d gone out in 4-under-par 32, but hung up bogey at 10, followed by double bogey at 12. Birdies at 17 and 18 weren’t enough to erase the sting of those three lost strokes, however.
“It was a really good double bogey,” Harrington said of his misadventure at 12. “I was very unlucky with the tee shot. I pulled it down the left. You just expected it to be in the rough and it caught the limb of a tree and went unplayable. These things happen.”
Coughing up the lead, a trait that plagued him earlier in his professional career, didn’t sit well with Harrington, either, especially considering the support he received from the gallery.
“I’m disappointed with today because it was in my control,” Harrington said. “I was leading the tournament and going into the back nine it was mine to lose and I lost it. There’s five million Irish people in Ireland and 40 million in the states, and it seems like a huge amount are in Boston. The support out there was fantastic, and it did feel like I was at home. I played with a few U.S. guys the last couple of days and we were joking who was actually the home guy. It definitely felt good.”
Harrington shot 15-under-par 269 for the event. He led off with three rounds of 67 before shooting 68 on Monday. He moved up to 14th on the FedEx Cup points list and now heads to suburban Chicago – Cog Hill in Lemont, Ill., to be exact – for the BMW Championship this weekend.

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