Golf: Harrington races to three-shot lead

PALM HARBOUR: Irishman Padraig Harrington fired a 10-under par 61 - the lowest score of his career - to seize a three-shot lead in the first round of the US PGA Transitions Championship. Harrington’s bogey-free round set a course record on the Copperhead layout at Innisbrook. Meanwhile, 10 players were tied on four-under par 67, including England’s Justin Rose and world number two Luke Donald.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 17^th, 2012.