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...Padraig Harrington's practice range in the backyard of his Dublin home comes equipped with floodlights. When his wife hauls him in after midnight, as she often does, the Irish golfer retires to a specially designed indoor range in his basement. At most tournaments, Harrington is the last golfer to leave the practice ground; at one event this year he hid a stash of balls behind a hospitality tent so he could sneak back out to practice after the staff went home. As is common to addicts, those close to Harrington try to wean him off his habit. His caddy...
...this sounds like the sort of obsessive behavior to which the ordinary duffer can relate, that's because Harrington is the patron saint of duffers. In his twenties, at an age when Tiger Woods was shattering records, Harrington was training to become an accountant on the assumption that professional golf was too difficult to crack. Between his first professional victory, in 1996, and his second four years later, he recorded nine runner-up finishes, and spent most of his early years on tour being chided for his plodding style and slow play. But Harrington has always had one great skill...
Sporting geniuses such as Tiger Woods have an intuitive, almost artistic feel for golf; Harrington belongs to a breed of amateur scientists who use an agonizing process of trial and error to master their craft. "Padraig is the hardest worker I've ever coached, and the most curious," says Bob Torrance, Harrington's 77-year-old swing guru. "[Former great Ben] Hogan was similar, both struggled early in their career. Both learned long and hard, and both became great...
...zone is currently classified as a transition area between the industrial zone in Kendall Square and the densely populated Wellington Harrington neighborhood. According to resident Isabel Caseres, the neighborhood has the lowest percentage of people with a high school education anywhere in the city, and the second highest population density...
...inexpensive teaching,” he said. “We need to make sure it’s good for them and we’re not just using them.” The position—which History of Science Department Chair Anne Harrington described as “three quarters teaching and one quarter research”—places a much larger emphasis on teaching than ladder-faculty positions do. Since the Fellows would be teaching “almost full time,” they may not have enough time to write...