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Ryder Cup: Padraig Harrington’s Irish dream

By Mike James
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Padraig Harrington has won two major championships this year, but there’s much more to his story than his big-time success on the PGA Tour. With the Ryder Cup set to begin Friday in Kentucky and Harrington leading the European team, Times correspondent Chuck Culpepper traveled to Ireland to discover what it was like for a young Harrington growing up.

The young Padraig began playing golf on a course in South County Dublin called Stackstown. It is a course designed and built by Harrington’s father and about nine other cops ... because class distinctions in the 1970s kept them off some of the other fine courses in the area.

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Already posted: the Ryder Cup is ready to be played, despite widespread problems related to wind storms in Kentucky.

-- Mike James

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Mike James

Mike James is a former Sports editor of the Los Angeles Times. A native of suburban Washington, D.C., James came to The Times from the Hartford Courant in 1985, took a hiatus from the print world in 2000 to work as coordinating producer at FoxSports.com and managing editor of the nightly news report on Fox Sports Net. He returned to The Times in 2002 and, after three years as deputy Sports editor, became Sports editor in 2009.

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