Padraig Harrington's blog: Northern Trust Open review

Even though I never felt comfortable over the ball it wasn’t really the fault of me missing the cut, which was due to the short game as usual and unfortunately I was a little too rusty. In the second round I had two three putts, the 4th and 12th, and thinned two bunkers shots, the 9th and 17th, which were ultimately the shots that cost me making the cut. There were a number of other shots that I let slip around the greens but these were the ones that really cost me.

Missing the cut was disappointing, as I would like to have played four rounds so as to get more tournament practice. One positive is that I was getting better mentally as the rounds went on - I felt that I was making good progress in this area.

Having missed the cut I spent Saturday practicing and trying to work out why I was hitting the ball right but to no avail. I traveled to Pebble Beach on Sunday morning and did some practice in the afternoon before watching the Super Bowl. My focus is on the AT&T National Pro-am now and with this in mind I will be working on sorting out that "right" shot and getting myself in a good frame of mind for the week.

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