Madam, - To appreciate the scale of Pádraig Harrington's accomplishments, consider this: of 31 major golf championships contested between August 1999 and June 2007, none was won by a European player. Now, in the space of 13 months, Harrington has ended that barren sequence in triplicate to ensure his place in sporting history.
No doubt Jack Nicklaus, who once defined achievement as "largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation", is suitably impressed. - Yours, etc,
PAUL KELLY,
Booterstown,
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Co Dublin.