{"id":745798,"date":"2026-07-06T04:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T04:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/745798\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T04:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T04:19:13","slug":"padraig-harrington-rolls-to-third-u-s-senior-open-title-tying-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/745798\/","title":{"rendered":"Padraig Harrington rolls to third U.S. Senior Open title, tying record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Padraig Harrington cruised into the history books Sunday in Columbus, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Harrington used back-to-back 4-under 66s on the weekend at Scioto Country Club to win the U.S. Senior Open by four shots and become just the second player to claim the senior national championship three times.<\/p>\n<p>Harrington, who also won U.S. Senior Open titles in 2022 and 2025, is now level with Miller Barber (1982, 1984, 1985) for the most victories in championship history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t have to do much on the way home,\u201d said Harrington, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/usga\/news\/stewart-cink-round-3-results-2026-us-senior-open-leaderboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">who entered Sunday trailing Stewart Cink by a shot<\/a> before a five-shot swing on the first three holes.<\/p>\n<p>By the time Harrington notched his fifth birdie of the round, at the par-4 11th hole, he was five shots clear of Cink, who closed in 71 to finish second at 8 under. Cink has been runner-up to Harrington at <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/news\/padraig-harrington-outduels-stewart-cink-over-four-days-to-win-second-u-s-senior-open\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">each of the last two U.S. Senior Opens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>George McNeill, who<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/usga\/news\/george-mcneill-miguel-angel-jimenez-make-move-up-at-us-senior-open-leaderboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> led after 36 holes,<\/a> finished third at 6 under, followed by senior debutant Ian Poulter at 5 under. Three players \u2013 Reteif Goosen, Jamie Donaldson and Paul Stankowski \u2013 were T-5 at 4 under. Michael Block ended T-31 at 3 over as the PGA pro failed to break 70 in any round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very rare for me to win a tournament where it\u2019s actually boring coming down the stretch,\u201d Harrington added. \u201cI\u2019m sorry for the TV viewers. Normally, I have to win the tournament twice, not just once, I create so much drama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harrington, who has now won more senior majors titles (four) than he did regular majors (three), didn\u2019t record a three-putt all week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever won a tournament by putting; this one I did,\u201d Harrington said. \u201cI putted lights out all week. No three-putts, but I also holed a lot of putts, I holed a lot of 10-footers for par. I\u2019ve been telling everybody I\u2019m putting great, I\u2019ve been saying it for six weeks, but I delivered this week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Padraig Harrington cruised into the history books Sunday in Columbus, Ohio. Harrington used back-to-back 4-under 66s on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-745798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}