{"id":439719,"date":"2026-02-22T14:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439719\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:14:13","slug":"paul-kimmage-no-professional-golfer-has-ever-walked-talked-or-thought-like-padraig-harrington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439719\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Kimmage: No professional golfer has ever walked, talked, or thought like P\u00e1draig Harrington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The 2007 Open Championship winner P\u00e1draig Harrington with the Claret Jug on his arrival home at Weston airport, Leixlip in July 2007. Photo: Caroline Quinn\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2bb47e31-60cb-4631-b6da-45421af16bbd.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The 2007 Open Championship winner P\u00e1draig Harrington with the Claret Jug on his arrival home at Weston airport, Leixlip in July 2007. Photo: Caroline Quinn\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">World Cup hero P\u00e1draig Harrington made the match of a lifetime yesterday when he married long-time sweetheart Caroline Gregan. And among the 160 guests was his champion partner Paul McGinley. P\u00e1draig, 26, wed blonde Caroline just weeks after clinching the World Cup with McGinley in the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">And after kissing radiant bride Caroline outside the church, he beamed: \u201cThis is far better than the Cup. This is a great day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2007 Open Championship winner P\u00e1draig Harrington with the Claret Jug on his arrival home at Weston airport,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,17106,81091,2623,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-439719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-padraig-harrington","tag-paul-kimmage","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}