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Mon 03 Mar 2003Pack closes in on Harrington
Judging by his taste in movies, which on the eve of one of his biggest tests in his career just happened to be the James Bond film Die Another Day, Padraig Harrington knew full well that he was to face a battle of attrition - with the course, with himself, and with a posse of pursuers - in the final round of the Players' Championship at the TPC at Sawgrass.
On a day grabbed from the heart of an Irish winter, with dark clouds and a chilly, gusting wind replacing the blue skies normally associated with Florida at this time of the year, competitors were faced with stern tests of not only their games, but their mental fortitude too.
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