Harrington: Lack of focus
"I did my best to be ready for the week but clearly I'm not. I haven't got the focus this week. I'm just not with it. Obviously, I'm still just having a hangover after winning The Open."
Padraig Harrington
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Padraig Harrington admitted he was suffering a hangover from last month's Open Championship triumph as he stumbled to a second round 74 at the USPGA Championship.
Harrington started the day in the upper echelons of the leaderboard after an opening 71 and made early progress with a birdie at the tenth hole where he started.
However, he struggled to maintain his momentum and bogeys at 11 and 17 saw him go out in 36 shots.
He did briefly rally with a birdie at the first, but hit the buffers rather with three straight bogeys at the third, fourth and fifth and another at the ninth - his final hole - left him conceding afterwards that he did not feel in the right frame of mind to challenge for back-to-back majors.
The Dubliner, who is now five-over, insisted the fall-out from his Open victory at Birkdale had left him under-prepared for the task in hand at Oakland Hills.
"I just ran out of steam," he said of his second round.
"It was a struggle for me. I did my best to be ready for the week but clearly I'm not.
"What can I say, the harder I tried the worse it got.
"I haven't got the focus this week. I'm just not with it. Obviously, I'm still just having a hangover after winning The Open."
