Three-time Major winner Padraig Harrington steered his BMW 3 team of Tom Barry, Mike Tracey and Mike Sim to victory in the Rolex Pro Am, curtain raiser to the 2010 Dubai World Championship presented by DP World.
Ryder Cup hero Harrington, who currently lies 18th in The Race to Dubai, proved to be in top form in a 28 team event, which saw the stars of the European Tour give their amateur partners a day to remember over the championship course.
The Irishman and his amateur partners combined to shoot a winning score of nineteen under par, three shots ahead of runner-up Francesco Molinari and his playing partners Ramesh Prabhakar, Moshe Kohli and Sandeep Singh in the BMW 2 team who took second place on a count-back from Ian Poulter’s Emirates 3 team of Bob Atkins, Peter Jackson and Mathew Warren on sixteen-under.
“Padraig was wonderful to play with,” said amateur partner Tom Barry. “Whenever one of us had a chance to score, he would spend time reading the putts and helping us get the best score we could. He was a real team player.”
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