I Went to Ireland for the Day…

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Published: December 27, 2012

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I escaped to Ireland for a day. With a Guinness in hand, I celebrated the recent Ireland Invasion of world professional golf, with Padraig Harrington, Graeme McDowell, Darren Clarke and Rory McIlroy, now all major champions and future World Golf Hall of Fame members. They were inimitable hosts for my visit.

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One has to look no further than Ireland to see how much golf has changed in the last five years.

Padraig Harrington beat Sergio Garcia in a playoff in the 2007 Open at Carnoustie and then repeated the feat a year later in the 2008 Open at Royal Birkdale winning convincingly by four strokes over Ian Poulter and six over third-round leader Greg Norman. Harrington proved his mettle again a month later with a PGA Championship in the States at Oakland Hills CC.

Winning three of six majors is the type of initial assault that is noticed by all and fuels additional conquests, if not by the originator then by his countrymen. It was not long after that Graeme McDowell won the 2010 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, the first European to do so since Tony Jacklin in 1970.

Rory McIlroy would knock on the door of major triumphs with no answer at the 2011 Masters, but the young lad would come through with sizable eight-stroke victories in the 2011 U.S. Open at Congressional CC and in the last major to be played, the 2012 PGA Championship at Kiawah Island. If Harrington opened the door for the Irish Invasion, then McIlroy opened it as wide as could be.

Some would say Darren Clarke started the whole Irish Uprising by defeating Tiger Woods in the final of the 2000 World Golf Championship (WGC) Match Play. Clarke's victory over Tiger came when Woods was in his youthful prime, winning four of the first seven WGCs and all four majors in a row.

Clarke would win another WGC in 20...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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