Padraig Harrington

Padraig Harrington has been working hard on the energy transfer in his golf swing, and it just paid off—literally.

Jacobs says Harrington's center of mass is now about "seven inches" closer to the target than it used to be. I’m releasing the club as much as possible here but a static picture could be used to argue I’m holding the angle. On the range ahead of this week's Arnold Palmer Invitational, Harrington was bashing a few drivers when his friend and fellow pro Shane Lowry came over to watch. Simply put, it was all arms, which meant the high speeds would come and go. Which, simply put, means looking how Harrington's body was generating power and then converting that power into swing speed. Senior Open—and finished T-2 in his first senior tour start in 2023.