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Sat 07 Jul 2008Champion may even go for the burn
BRITISH OPEN COUNTDOWN INTERVIEW WITH PADRAIG HARRINGTON: Philip Reidhears from the holder of the Claret Jug about trying to recreate the conditions and feelings that accompanied his win at Carnoustie
THE CLARET Jug has probably never endured such a year. The day after Pádraig Harrington laid claim to it, on a now-famous Sunday just short of a year ago, it was removed from a plastic bag - its temporary wrapping - and placed atop a table in a pizza joint in south Dublin while the champion golfer of 2007, seemingly oblivious to the stares around him, soothed his hunger pangs.
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