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Padraig Harrington carded a round of 80 on the final day of the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando, Florida at the Ball Hill Lodge and Country Club.
Harrington had just one birdie in a round that included a first-hole double bogey and also seven bogeys to end the event near the tail of the field at five over par.
Harrington managed to find just half the Bay Hill fairways and after averaging 28 putts the first three days, he had 34 putts over his last 18 holes.
Padraig remains positive ahead of the Valero Texas Open.
“There are a lot of positives I can take from the week with me to San Antonio,” he said.
“Of course, there was nothing much I could take from the front nine today but outside of that there is a lot of positives.”
“The Texas Open course is usually a windy course and that should suit me,” said Harrington.
Graeme McDowell played the final round alongside Davis Love III, shooting a 70 compared to the American’s 73, and a day after facing Celtic Manor singles rival Hunter Mahan when McDowell got himself back into the Florida event with a 67.
And after averaging less than eight of 14 fairways over his first two rounds, McDowell missed just one fairway on the weekend — that being the 15th yesterday where he took a bogey ahead of then doubling the par-three 17th where he found water guarding the green.
“I went back home on Friday panicking a little where I pulled about 10 drivers out of the archives and went down to the Lake Nona range and tried to find something,” he said.
“It was one of the new Cleveland Classic drivers I was testing a lot last year but when the new Srixon came out, I archived the Cleveland,” he added.
“This driver is not as long as I have been using this year but it is a hell of a lot more accurate and I will be taking it with me to Malaysia this week.”
McDowell now makes his way to Malaysia for the inaugural EurAsia Cup.
Darren Clarke missed the cut.
