It appears when you win three of six major championships in golf, people start to care what you say.Irishman and back-to-back major champion Padraig Harrington spoke with everyone's favorite Irish light heavyweight boxer, Kenny Egan, about concentration, motivation and any other term I learned watching "Remember the Titans."
"He came to my house and basically was talking about how to peak, how to go to a big-time event and produce your best performance," Harrington said Tuesday at The Barclays. "He was obviously a very talented competitor himself and knew what to do, but was feeling that he was slightly underachieving at the big events."The talk apparently helped, as Egan advanced to the medal round on Tuesday in Beijing.
"The only way to learn experience without actually going through it yourself is learn from somebody else," Harrington said. "Kenny was not afraid to ask a couple of people to make the contact with me. And I love to talk, so I was more than obliging."I love Padraig, but picturing him motivate someone is just humor in my head. I just keep thinking about how many "ehhhs" he'd spit out in a single sentence.
We will see how great it actually pays off on Friday, as Egan pairs up against Britain's Tony Jeffries in the semifinals.
