{"id":868869,"date":"2026-10-03T01:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T01:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868869\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T01:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T01:26:22","slug":"harrington-well-placed-at-alfred-dunhill-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868869\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrington well placed at Alfred Dunhill Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Padraig Harrington is currently tied-36th on six-under after carding a five-under par round of 67 in his second round in Kingsbarns at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Having opened with a fine 71 at Carnoustie &#8211; the site of his famous 2007 Open Championship triumph &#8211; Harrington rolled in a total of seven birdies with just two dropped strokes at the modern links at Kingsbarns, which lies just six miles south of the Old Course.<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year old Dubliner is a two-time winner of the event, having won it in 2002 and 2006, the latter title coming en route to his sole Order of Merit title on the European Tour.<\/p>\n<p>In a congested field, Harrington lies five strokes adrift of the leader, Casey Jarvis of South Africa, who birdied the 18th late in the day to reach 11-under par, one stroke clear of a trio of players, including his compatriot MJ Daffue, as well as Matthew Jordan of England and Rocco Repetto Taylor of Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Another quartet of players sit two off the lead at nine under par, the most prominent being Niklas Norgaard of Norway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/european-tour-1\/28889\/alfred-dunhill-links-championship-908778\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brooks Koepka, Bob MacIntyre, Thomas Detry and Daniel Hillier are part of a relatively high-powered grouping on eight-under par.<\/p>\n<p>Five-time major winner Koepka recorded a blemish-free five under par round at Kingsbarns on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy Fleetwood and Matt Fitzpatrick are also part of a very large group of players on six under par alongside Harrington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Padraig Harrington is currently tied-36th on six-under after carding a five-under par round of 67 in his second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-868869","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\/868869","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=868869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}